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"The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves."
"The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless."
"One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability."
"The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning."
". . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth."
"If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
"The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying of all religions that mankind has conceived. This, like the others, comes from the best qualities of human nature, even if in this, as in the others, its adherents sometimes fail to carry out the principles in their lives."
"Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods."
"Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?"
"Quality requires your Presence."
"He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities."
"First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will."
"I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror."
"I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree."
"I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities."
"Vaughan Telecom installers and contractors ensure the highest quality service for data and network cabling in Toronto and GTA area."
"Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people."
"Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness"
"I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones."
"If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what."
