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I never competed against athletes. i competed against perfection.
-Carl Lewis
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I Never Competed Against Athletes. I Competed

Carl Lewis
I never competed against athletes. i competed against perfection.
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What is the purpose for which masonry exists? its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. mankind it self is still in a period of youth. we are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.
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I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "perfection" to me is, i walk away from a situation and say, "i did everything i could do right there. there was nothing more that i could do." like, i worked as hard as i possibly could have. that's perfection.
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