"Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have."
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"Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes."
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"The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth."
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"You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality."
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"How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them."
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"We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are."
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"I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses."
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"I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain."
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"Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so."
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"All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it."
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"You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms)."
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"The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention."
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"See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought."
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"The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas."
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"I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere."
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"You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust."
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"Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever."
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"The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms"
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"If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity."
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"Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now."
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