"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."
-George MacDonald
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."
-George MacDonald
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"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
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"To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power."
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"An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him."
-William Minto
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"I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice."
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"The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know."
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"A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people."
-Bessie Head
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"My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd."
-Arthur Holly Compton
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