"We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man."
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"Today's winemakers still worry about quality."
"When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction."
"Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them."
"Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers."
"Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do."
"All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance."
"It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others."
"The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect."
"There are some bad qualities which make great talents."
"In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities."
"The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy."
"No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability. It's certainly not a judgmental entity. It's certainly not paternalistic and all these qualities that have been attributed to God."
"To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it."
"Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers."
"People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music."
"I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness."
"You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you."
"My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be."
"Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not."