"The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little."
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"The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose."
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"The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."
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"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men."
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"Artists must be sacrificed to their art."
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"Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you."
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"Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life."
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"Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation."
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"Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it."
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"The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly."
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"In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality."
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"For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it."
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"Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain."
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"Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities."
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"Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer."
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"I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role."
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"I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom."
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"We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves."
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"We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients."
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"It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control."
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