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"Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
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Personal Development
"Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace."
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Personal Development
"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."
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Personal Development
"The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best."
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Personal Development
"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."
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Personal Development
"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul."
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"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
Happiness
"It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity."
Quality
"Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind."
Influence
"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself."
Self-Improvement
"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
Power
"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
Ignorance
"The world is governed by opinion."
Opinion
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
Man
"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."
Perfection
"The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought."
Thought
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