"The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not."
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"Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting."
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"The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions."
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"As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be."
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"Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults."
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"If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty."
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"The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character"
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"The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline."
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"One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation."
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"The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them."
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"I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing."
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"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
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"Anything worth doing is worth doing well."
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"The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness."
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"The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet."
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"Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man."
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"Quantity has a quality all its own."
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"You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it."
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"Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them."
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"The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life."
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