"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
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"The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence."
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"Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it."
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"Without doubt I praise the wild excellence."
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"Excellent things are rare."
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"All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence."
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"There is always a best way of doing everything."
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"All excellence is equally difficult."
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"In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence."
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"Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect."
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"I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based on murder, guns. Tarantino bores me. Even though he is very appealing and very facile about putting elements of pop culture into his work. But it kinds of dates it, right?"
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"I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out."
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"Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves."
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"Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time."
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"Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them."
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"My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work."
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"Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish."
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"Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice."
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"There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness."
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"The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low."
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