"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."
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"Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium"
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"I'm obsessively opposed to the typical."
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"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
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"Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity."
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"Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise."
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"Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence."
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"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."
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"To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness."
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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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"The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you."
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"The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity."
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"When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish."
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"In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre."
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"Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity."
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"Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!"
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"Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity."
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"Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it."
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"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge"
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"Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions."
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