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"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected." »Gerald R. Ford
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"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites..." »Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
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"quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality." »Peter Drucker
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"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
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"The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up." »Harold R. McAlindon
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"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten." »Euripides
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"I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement." »Oscar Wilde
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"The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear." »Felix Adler
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"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." »Sigmund Freud
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"Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity." »Arnold Toynbee
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"Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is." »Robert Pirsig
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"Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline." »Jane E. Brody
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"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks." »Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
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"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. They fancy themselves superior to every one else, and, not being sure of making good their secret pretensions, decline entering the lists altogether. Thus they ?lay the flattering unction to their souls? that they could have said better things than others, or that the conversation was beneath them." »Hazlitt
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"Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die." »James L. Hayes
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"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it." »William James
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"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay." »Eric Hoffer
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"The integrity of states is ruled by the socioeconomic well-being theory. The degree of the stability of any social system is proportional to the degree of its economic growth and vice versa. Stated differently, the risk to national integrity increases proportionally to the country's economic decline." »Med Jones
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"quality is never an accident." »Willa A. Foster
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"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique." »William James
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"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life." »Henry David Thoreau
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters." »Seneca
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"quality has to be caused, not controlled." »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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"Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind." »John Sloan
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"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs." »German proverb
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"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." »Ray Kroc
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"ART is a word which summarizes THE quality OF COMMUNICATION." »L. Ron Hubbard
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"The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." »Ray Kroc
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