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• Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.101, Canongate Books

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• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Art, Excellence

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

  Shawn Fanning

  Regret, School, Ideas

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

  David Milne

  Attractive Things, Scotland, People

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• MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

  Ridley Scott

  Moving, Majority, Brilliant

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• There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, March 3, 2000.

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• It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Squares, Hands, Feet

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• He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

  Conrad Aiken

  Work, Views, Firsts

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• I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.

  Barry Hughart

  Love, Beautiful, Daughter

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• I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

  Joe Shuster

  Views, Empathy, Leader

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• There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

  Philip Sidney

  Names, Needs, Answers

  Philip Sidney, Geoffrey Shepherd, R.W. Maslen (2002). “An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition”, p.87, Manchester University Press

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• People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

  Sheryl Crow

  Funny, Player, Bridges

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• Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Night, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• [M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which keeps good servants of God in fear when they have nothing to suffer!

  Vincent de Paul

  School, Servant Of God, Suffering

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited to those whom God has called to the former, which is in itself more excellent.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Differences, Solitude

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

  Ben Horowitz

  Jobs, Skills, Training

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Leadership, Sports, Hard Work

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• I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.

  Stan Musial

  Fun, Play, People

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• I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.

  Chellie Pingree

  Skills, Helpful, Chickens

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• That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

  Zeno of Citium

  Exercise, Doe, Reason

  "De Natura Deorum". Book by Cicero, II. 8.; III. 9,

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• It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.249, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq

  John Flavel

  Book, Men, Funeral

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• No doubt that he will make an excellent senator.

  Jeri Ryan

  Doubt, Senators, No Doubt

  "Ryan file a bombshell". www.chicagotribune.com. June 22, 2004.

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• Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.

  Richard Russo

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Richard Russo (2017). “Nobody's Fool”, p.386, Atlantic Books

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• Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One day he was writing on the blackboard when he suddenly turned around and said 'Life is a great adventure and death is the greatest adventure of all,' then went back to the board. I have never feared death since then.

  Kathryn Tucker Windham

  Teacher, School, Adventure

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