"The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function."
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"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."
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"The education of attention would be an education par excellence"
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"Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified."
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"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things."
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"I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty. [Lat., Ardua molimur; sed nulla nisi ardua virtus.]"
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"All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!"
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"Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating."
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"I can do small things in a great way."
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"Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim."
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"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."
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"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
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"Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence."
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"These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life."
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"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
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"Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges."
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"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."
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"Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre."
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"Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae."
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"Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common."
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