"The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace."
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"We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created."
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"I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them."
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"How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?"
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"I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within."
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"There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest."
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"Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom."
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"We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so."
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"It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress."
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"The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith"
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"Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors."
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"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."
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"I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education."
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"Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul."
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"I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy."
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"Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it."
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"And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring."
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"Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals; this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining our negative thoughts and emotions, and developing basic spiritual qualities."
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"If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now."
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"Bollywood has got this rare quality where it dances, but it still has a depth of a sad song at the same time. It's really strange. They kind of manage to do two things at once. We do a ballad, or a dance song, and it's very difficult. They kind of mix those two things together. It's pretty impressive, beautiful music."
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