Quotes with high-quality

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  • Abraham Cahan If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
    The Rise of David Levinsky
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Bill Buford If kept dry, a chocolate with a high cacao content, I've discovered, rarely spoils.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Byron Dorgan If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • George S. Patton If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Chris Evert If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
    Chris Evert
    American tennis player (1954 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • William James If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Alberto Salazar If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • A. A. Milne If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
    When We Were Very Young Spring Morning l. 17 (1924)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Joyce Chapman If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
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  • Bruce Lipton If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ann Macbeth In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Arne Jacobsen In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bill Laswell In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • J. A. Dever In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem
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  • Barry Marshall In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Busy Philipps In high school I had some famously egregious fashion missteps. I was really out there in fashion, I think because I wanted attention. I would wear crazy patterns, skin-tight pants and giant platform shoes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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