"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."

Quality, Soul, Curiosity, Desire

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"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."

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"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

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"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

George Eliot, British Author

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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life."

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"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."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

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"Become great by converting your time into quality product."

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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

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"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."

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"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."

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"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

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