"Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence."
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"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
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"Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way."
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"You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question."
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"I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over."
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"Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us."
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"The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence."
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"Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity."
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."
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"We don't settle for anything less than excellence."
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"As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence."
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"Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence."
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"Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day"
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"When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population."
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"Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence."
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"Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence."
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"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself."
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"Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination ."
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
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"Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
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