"If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment."
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"The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities"
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"It's really about putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life."
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"I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle--even though it cannot be solved--is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine."
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"Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive."
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"It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way."
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"I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life."
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"Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity."
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"The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself."
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"The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives."
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"All my clients eat. Madonna has a very healthy appetite. She doesn't eat processed food, she's very conscious of the quality of the things she eats but she has treats - she loves cupcakes."
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"Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe."
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"You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds."
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"I have come to realize it's not the QUANTITY of LOVE but instead the QUALITY"
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"While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being."
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"That girl is pretty kinky, the girl's a super-freak, I'd really like to taste her."
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"Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic."
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"Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce."
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"True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind."
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"Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress."
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