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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. In this quote, Nelson Mandela was speaking about the difficulty of trying to reach perfection in life while being human. He was saying that while we all want to be perfect, we have to remember that no one is perfect, and we also have to realize that striving for perfection will leave us defenseless against life’s challenges.
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