"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
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"It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know."
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"The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you."
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"They that stand high have many blasts to shake them."
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"Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow."
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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness."
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"The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little."
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"Effort is between you, and you, and nobody elseI'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic."
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"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess."
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"There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth."
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"Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her."
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"The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business."
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"I can do small things in a great way."
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"The person best suited to look out for your interests is you. The more you depend on yourself, the more positive control you have over every aspect of your life. Take personal responsibility for who you are, what you do, and how you live. You are the only person who knows what is best for you. And you are the one who is most able to achieve it!! You have GREATNESS within you!"
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"Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind."
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"Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me."
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"Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'."
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"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."
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"Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness."
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"It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves."
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