Quotes with qualities

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  • Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Joseph Conrad The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Vince Lombardi The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Aristotle The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Agnes Smedley There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Lord Acton There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Ansel Adams There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Blaise Pascal Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ansel Adams To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities - that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Beyonce Knowles We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Arsene Wenger We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Jacques Maritain We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Jean Baudrillard We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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