"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity."
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"Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity."
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"The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity."
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"Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people."
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"Democracy: a festival of mediocrity."
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"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities."
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"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity."
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"But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation."
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"Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."
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"For what level of mediocrity will you settle?"
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"There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue."
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"You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you"
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"Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way."
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"Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with."
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"Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal."
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"Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people."
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"Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe."
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"As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual."
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"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper."
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