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"Should we, then, despair of our being unable to retain perfect perfect purity? We should, if perfection were our goal. However, we are not obliged to be perfect once and for all, but only to rise again and again beyond the level of the self. Perfection is divine, and to make it a goal of man is to call on man to be divine. All we can do is try to wring our hearts clean in contrition."---Abraham Joshua Heschel

And to do our level best, again, at the next opportunity...

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