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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die."

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Alice Miller Psychologist, Author
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"The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail."

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
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"The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman."

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Walker Evans Photographer
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"What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman."

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Raymond Williams Cultural Critic, Writer
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"Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person."

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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
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"There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored."

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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
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"Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are."

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