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"But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group."
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"What is easy is seldom excellent."
"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
"Quality is better than quantity."
"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."
"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
"The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs."
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"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
"The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word."
"The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality."
"The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised."
"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."
"The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency."
"We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization."
"It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one."
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