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Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
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Dax Ward
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.
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Karen Nussbaum
There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.
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Hannah More, 1775
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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George MacDonald
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
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Plato
No human thing is of serious importance.
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Theodore Harold White
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
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Oscar Wilde
Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Ernest Hemingway
Never confuse movement with action.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
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Jessamyn West
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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