"A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can."

Quality, People, Knowledge, Day

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"A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can."

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"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."

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"Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher."

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"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

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"I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality."

John Philip Sousa, American Musician

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"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."

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"The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers."

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"Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth."

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"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."

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"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

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"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within."

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"Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed."

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"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

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"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated."

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