"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."

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"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."

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"To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

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"I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality."

Catherine Keener, American Actress

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"The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear."

Art Modell, American Businessman

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"The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

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"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film."

Michael Apted, British Director

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"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."

Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer

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"A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

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"So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

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"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."

Dance

"I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling."

People

"Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings."

Woman

"Advice to persons about to marry - don't."

Advice

"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."

Creativity

"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it."

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"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles."

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"There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures."

Morality

"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."

Location

"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."

Location