It's fine to look for ways to improve the measuring tools, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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And we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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But when it comes to addressing our health care challenge, we can no longer let the perfect be the enemy of the essential.
In other words, the Fed continues to be the enemy of savers.
In other words, precision can actually be the enemy of performance goals.
The cause of the fire, which happened in the workplace, is under investigation but is not thought to be the result of enemy action.
Yet diplomatic recognition need not be the enemy of morality.
"It does not solve all problems and there's plenty more issues to take up, but I think in the spirit of not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, this is really a good thing, " Ms. Brier said.
Valour in the face of the enemy may not be enough to save him.
It just doesn't pay to be an enemy of the open source movement these days.
Maj Marcus Mudd, the commander of the BRF, said his troops would be dropping in behind enemy lines.
When you're in a combat zone, you need to be focusing all of your energies on fighting the enemy.
Obama, once their friend, is now their enemy, and if you are a Master of the Universe by definition your enemy is going to be Skeletor.
You know, we have to be right a hundred percent of the time, and the enemy only has to be right once to hurt us.
Should such a high risk attack fail due to faulty information or prudent anticipation on the part of the adversary, the enemy may not be deterred and may respond with even greater force.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese government has told the United Nations that showing any of the tape would be "unacceptable" and tantamount to providing an enemy with intelligence.
For sure, governments are famously skittish about appearing to condone smoking, but this may be a case where the perfect is the enemy of the good.
The only internal pressure on Mr Paisley may be his own party's ambition, and perhaps the desire at the age of 80 to hold power at last, even if it must be shared with the enemy.
On one of those tapes may be the enemy being right the next time.
He knows that the overwhelming majority of Americans consider Iran to be an enemy of their country.
Which they might be, except for the most potent enemy of passenger rail in America: Amtrak itself.
The job of a central bank used to be simple: Inflation was enemy number one.
What may be most remarkable about Swiri's success, however, is its delicately shaded portrait of the enemy.
He stressed that the world can be an enemy of Christian hope, but that people should try to focus on heavenly thoughts.
Yet it would be quite wrong to see Mr Wahid either as a supporter of the old regime or as an enemy of democracy.
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They now worry that he will be able to use Mr Buchanan, another old enemy of the Bushes, to rob them of their prize again.
Republicans have criticized security officials for charging the suspect in criminal court instead of treating him as an enemy combatant to be prosecuted by a military commission.
Wars require clear goals, but they also require vagueness as to methods: the enemy should be made to feel that all forms of attack may be unleashed upon him until he capitulates.
The work of the Catholic theologians drew upon traditions stretching back to the ancient world that would have considered terrorists to be hostis humani generis, the enemy of all mankind, who merited virtually no protections under the laws of war.
Well, just this weekend, former Secretary of State Colin Powell urged that the Guantanamo Bay facility for holding enemy combatants should be closed immediately.
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