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“The quality will remain long after the price is forgotten.”

“I have only one regret … that I have not worked harder.”

“Strive for perfection in everything we do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough.”

“Small things make perfection, but perfection is no small thing … Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.”

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"This well-observed phenomenon, So new to modern intellect, Has been exhibited, off and on, In varied tongue and dialect,"

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"The mediaeval university looked backwards: it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge... The modern university looks forward: it is a factory of new knowledge."

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