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"What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation."
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"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."
"The time you utilize doing something determines how good the product will be."
"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."
"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."
"The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation."
"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
"I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality."
"If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes."
"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."
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"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed."
"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."
"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."
"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."
"What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation."
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