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

Quality, Ability

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

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

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

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really."

Ewan McGregor, Scottish Actor

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"Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks."

Frank Lampard, English Athlete

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"But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it."

Ron Jaworski, American Athlete

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"A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition."

Anatoli Boukreev, Russian Athlete

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"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."

Robert MacNeil, Canadian Journalist

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"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."

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"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

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"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."

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"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."

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