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• Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

  John Dryden

  Philosophical, Learning, Math

  John Dryden, George Saintsbury, Sir Walter Scott (1892). “The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works”

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• It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Devices, Acquire

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• Now, today, some children are enrolled in excellent programs. Some children are enrolled in mediocre programs. And some are wasting away their most formative years in bad programs....That's why I'm issuing a challenge to our states: Develop a cutting-edge plan to raise the quality of your early learning programs; show us how you'll work to ensure that children are better prepared for success by the time they enter kindergarten. If you do, we will support you with an Early Learning Challenge Grant that I call on Congress to enact.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Cutting, Years

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• The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

  William Shenstone

  Wine, Power, White

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.124

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• Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

  Noel Coward

  Stars, Knights, Play

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• The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Respect, Men, Order

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• Excellent things are rare.

  Plato

  Excellence

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Ballet, Chess, Humour

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• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  F. Sionil José

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Art

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• If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

  Charles Stanley

  Average, Effort, Outstanding

  Charles Stanley (2011). “How to Reach Your Full Potential for God: Never Settle for Less than His Best”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Fuel, Kindling

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• I think it would be an excellent idea.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Ideas, Civilization

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• Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice.

  Stephen Covey

  Athlete, Thinking, Voice

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.

  Declan Lynch

  Civilization, Funeral, Would Be

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• She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sex, Memories, Greek

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.20, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Imperfection, Criticism, Finals

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• Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

  Debi Thomas

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

  Os Guinness

  Humans

  Os Guinness (2002). “Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, and Spin”, Baker Books

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Glasses, Envy

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• The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

  Alfred Nobel

  War, Writing, Impossible

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• Dominants often make excellent submissives. They know the rules of the game.

  Jay Wiseman

  Games, Rules Of The Game, Knows

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• An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

  George du Maurier

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic

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• People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that, and enjoy proving these people wrong. This project is an excellent way of exploring that area more.

  Squarepusher

  Powerful, Hands, People

  "Squarepusher Makes Music with Robots, for Robots". "Squarepusher × Z-MACHINES" promo video, motherboard.vice.com. April 2, 2014.

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• Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.

  Alice McCall

  Writing, Drawing, Tools

  Alice McCall (2009). “Wellness Wisdom”, p.21, Alice McCall

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• When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

  Richard J. Foster

  Things In Life, Problem, Disillusioned

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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