"Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need."
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"I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy."
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"Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought."
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"Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything."
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"You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough."
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"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."
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"We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them."
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"Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire."
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"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
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"The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive."
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"Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel."
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"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."
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"The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity."
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"I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality."
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"Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial."
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"I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground."
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"Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount."
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"Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!"
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"Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care."
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"Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no."
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