The product is perfectible given the creativity of the workers and sufficient funding. From LearnThat.org.
The term perfectible, thus explained, not only does not imply the capacity of being brought to perfection, but stands in express opposition to it. From Wordnik.com. [Enquiry Concerning Political Justice] Reference
All humankind and human society itself was perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [a. Schools of Classical Chinese Thought] Reference
For Schlegel “every proof is infinitely perfectible”. From Wordnik.com. [Friedrich Schlegel] Reference
As for the NHS, it is perfectible but certainly not perfect. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I asked specifically if human beings were perfectible in this way. From Wordnik.com. [The Organization Kid] Reference
The idea that man is perfectible has been disproved by 10,000 years of history. From Wordnik.com. [Atlas Hugged] Reference
I love our great country not because it is perfect but because it is perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Rice Speaks About Family, Equality At Spelman] Reference
Democracy is never perfect, but because it is open and free, it is always perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By President To Joint Sitting Of National Congress] Reference
Man is perfectible, for the Stoics, in virtue of the fact that he is rational and so far godlike. From Wordnik.com. [PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN] Reference
The left generally believes that man is basically good and that society is therefore perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Vedantist] Reference
She believed that man is perfectible — a view she shared with the Soviet collectivists she hated. From Wordnik.com. [Atlas Hugged] Reference
Man is perfectible, therefore, in so far as he can conquer every kind of disorder or conflict in his soul. From Wordnik.com. [PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN] Reference
This realization is important since it is often the notion of a perfectible world that drives OCDS' actions. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Awareness] Reference
Both suffer from the same utopian views of human nature, considering it closer to perfectible than to fallen. From Wordnik.com. [A defense of capitalism] Reference
All this wouldn't matter if Wrights theology said that although America is very, very bad - it is perfectible. From Wordnik.com. ["An aide to John McCain was suspended from the campaign today for blasting out an inflammatory video...."] Reference
(Rousseau was indeed so good and perfectible that he dumped his five children in an orphanage as soon as they were weaned.). From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales] Reference
For life and soundness of body depend on the body being subject to the soul, as the perfectible is subject to its perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The concept of perfectibility is parasitic upon the concept of perfection: to be perfectible is to be capable of being perfected. From Wordnik.com. [PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN] Reference
Do you believe that rational egoism, the application of natural law, and higher reason can point the way to a perfectible society?. From Wordnik.com. [What's Your Problem?] Reference
They are believers in the unconstrained vision of humanity, that man is perfectible under the guidance of an enlightened state apparatus. From Wordnik.com. ["I think it's Althouse's popularity among conservatives that really gets a lot of liberals."] Reference
And if you are such, how could anyone love you, for you are not even a person, a clearly defined entity, imperfect but at least perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
It's a Utopian document filled with the idea that men are really infinitely perfectible, full of ideas about radical individualism, radical egalitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline] Reference
Associated with this are the traditions handed down from the enlightenment and insistence on humanism, on the idea that the human person is of intrinsic value, and is perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH ON THE OCCASION OF INSTALLATION AS THE CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE AND ON BEING AWARDED THE HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS, OCTOBER 19, 1991(1)] Reference
The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Reference
Liberalism, as I've said, rests upon the falsehood that Man is perfectible by men. From Wordnik.com. [Blogs For Victory] Reference
By perfectible, it is not meant that he is capable of being brought to perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Enquiry Concerning Political Justice] Reference
After all, Marxism and Leninism were based on the premise that man was perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference
It requires some perfecting in detail; but it is in every reasonable sense perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
If so, maybe Karl Marx was more right than not: human nature is ultimately perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [Everyday Citizen] Reference
He believed then that human life was infinitely perfectible, eliminating these conditions?. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
He believed that because reason and natural laws governed human behavior, society was perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Hence he is perfectible through nature, and merely conforms to nature in improving his mind and in bettering his condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
He seems to have believed deeply in the idea that humankind is perfectible, and that architecture could play a role in that. From Wordnik.com. [California Literary Review] Reference
By showing what is nature, it will reveal what is nurture-and thus just how flexible and perfectible the human animal really is. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words susceptible of perpetual improvement. From Wordnik.com. [Enquiry Concerning Political Justice] Reference
The Left has traditionally assumed that human nature is so malleable, so perfectible, that it can be shaped in almost any direction. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart] Reference
He wrote in the context of the popular view, in 18th century Europe, that saw society as improving, and in principle as perfectible. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
That said both random and streaming performance are perfectible and we are looking at a number different ways to improve on this situation. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Sun] Reference
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