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“There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro.” Voltaire, Candide
“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest...” John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of...” René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet...” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee...” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom about what and at what times.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap—just ask my critics, who will moan about entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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