Winston Churchill

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." -- Winston Churchill

I hesitate to criticize Winston Churchill, but I think he is doing something funny with the words here. "To be" indicates a state, not an action; "to change" is obviously an action. A true statement along the lines of Churchill's thought would be, "To be perfect is to have changed often." Less awkward would be, "To become perfect is to change often."

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