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"We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects."
"It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!"
"Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much."
"Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership."
"The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight."
"Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest."
"Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves."
"For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south."
"First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy."
"Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate."
"We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate."
"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."
"He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones- sitting sadly Hearing us praise our loves of Italy For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast Of him that best could speak; for feature, laming The shrine of Venus or straight-pight Minerva, Postures beyond brief nature; for condition, A shop of all the qualities that man Loves woman for; besides that hook of wiving, Fairness which strikes the eye- CYMBELINE."
"I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike."
"One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range."
"We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses."
"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount."
"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports."
"Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed."
"This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions."
