"It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds."
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"Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee."
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"The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects."
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"Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains."
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"You are worthy of love and you deserve to be happy. You have these beautiful qualities and many more because you are living the gift of a human incarnation. My hope is that you will embrace these truths and your birthright to live a life abundant in love, joy, and celebration."
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"Deliver total quality to every customer every day."
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"Sometimes you get lucky - you don't put much work in and you're successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it's about the quality of the time you put in."
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"Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual."
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"A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness."
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"She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her."
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"I don't like karaoke because the mics are always so worn out. The quality of the mics is such that you're always going (screaming) "Yeah, yeah!" and then you can't like it. It's like sometimes I'm too professional to get up and do it."
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"I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that."
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"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."
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"The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."
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"Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind."
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"We all have the defects of our qualities."
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"Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality."
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"Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value."
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"What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself."
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"The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals is so incalculably great that the argument of these critics, systematically pursued, establishes not their conclusion but its reverse: to refrain from using animals in biomedical research is, on utilitarian grounds, morally wrong."
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