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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. Mortimer Adler | top
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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. Irving Babbitt | top
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. Jean de la Bruyere | top
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It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities. Steve Buyer | top
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more. Dabney Coleman | top
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. James Bryant Conant | top
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The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles. Ken Curtis | top
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. Federico Fellini | top
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. John W. Gardner | top
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. John W. Gardner | top
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. Jose Ortega y Gasset | top
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They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! Harry Hopkins | top
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Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." Henrik Ibsen | top
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs | top
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. C. S. Lewis | top
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Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. Nancy Lopez | top
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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent. Pat Metheny | top
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Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process. Jerry Moran | top
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. Marcus Fabius Quintilian | top
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I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed. John Romero | top
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I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. Isaac Rosenberg | top
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. Edmund C. Stedman | top
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. Alexis de Tocqueville | top
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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu | top
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It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other. John Wilkins | top