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"Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities."
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"Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range."
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"Our party's most outstanding mediocrity."
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"A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence."
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"Mediocrity is contextual."
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". . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity."
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"Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness."
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"When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."
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"Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions."
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"Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth."
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"The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution."
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"We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174"
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"He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word."
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"Expectations are the engines of our perceptions."
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"Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity."
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"What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity."
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"The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly."
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"The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity."
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"Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius."
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