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• If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.

  Steven T. Byington

  Digging, Rendering, Mines

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• What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Science, Math

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1836). “Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition ...”, p.69

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• Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.

  Laozi

  People, Leader, Taoism

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• Excellent warriors are not violent.

  Laozi

  Warrior, Taoism, Violent

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• Excellent soldiers are not furious.

  Laozi

  Soldier, Taoism, Furious

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• Excellent conquerors do not engage.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Conqueror

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• There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard- working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard- working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody. Finally, there are the intelligent, lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office.

  Erich von Manstein

  Stupid, Hard Work, Intelligent

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• Thank you, World Screen, for regularly providing me with excellent articles on international media topics. For me, World Screen is an important means of information-well-structured and reader-oriented.

  Gerhard Zeiler

  Mean, Media, Important

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• Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today.

  James H. Cone

  Love Is, Discipline, Important

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• I would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when I needed to. I never really partied or did anything like that.

  Tia Mowry

  Students, Homework, Study

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2007.

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• The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

  Questlove

  Football, Team, Winning

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• Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and never lets up, taking you on a ride that leaves your heart pounding. It's almost impossible to put this book down. Dead of Night is an excellent read.

  S.G. Browne

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Enough, Habit

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• That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.

  Mark Richard

  Mom, Brother, Real

  Mark Richard (2013). “The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories”, p.54, Anchor

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• It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.

  Elinor Lipman

  People, Degrees, Lessons

  Elinor Lipman (2007). “My Latest Grievance”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Country, Song, Stupid

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• The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Coffee, Beer

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....]

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Law, Example, Phrases

  Vilfredo Pareto (1942). “Non-logical conduct”

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• Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

  Steve Albini

  Rocks, Cooking, Musician

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• Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Math, Two, Giving

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• Yesterday I saw a child wearing a T-shirt that said, "If you love me, don't feed me junk food." I was delighted to see this, but I also know how difficult it can be to feed our children well, particularly when the foods that are most convenient and the most heavily advertised are often the ones we should avoid. Joel Fuhrman's new book is a blessing, because it makes it so much easier. It is excellent, and full of clarity, wisdom, and guidance you can trust. It can indeed give you the power to shape your child's health destiny - John Robbins

  Joel Fuhrman

  Children, Book, Destiny

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• Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge.

  James Van Praagh

  Motivational, Ideas, Mind

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• Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct.

  John J. Pershing

  Brother, Marine, Army

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• I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Song: The Best Day, Album: Fearless, 2008

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• There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Way, Protest

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.97, Beacon Press

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