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• Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.

  Knut Hamsun

  Memories, Men, Majority

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• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  Nadia Giosia

  Giving, Dieting, Dinner

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• The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Novel, Plague

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• The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Modern, Painter

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• If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Years, Tree

  Letter to M. Francais, 1875.

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• Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.

  Leland Ryken

  Self, Levels, Want

  "Differences in Bible Translations". Bible Translation Magazine Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.

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• Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2015). “HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman)(HBR's 10 Must Reads)”, p.3, Harvard Business Review Press

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• A man who relentlessly perspires
  to be excellent evidently inspires
  many with his intelligence and
  elegance.

  Anuj

  Men, Inspire, Elegance

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• The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

  Azealia Banks

  Awards, Azaleas, Excellence

  "Azealia Banks And Iggy Azalea Are Going At It Again" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2014.

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• There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Artist, Needs, Tools

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Ringo, the last to become a Beatle, came into the group not because I wanted him, but because the boys did. To be completely honest, I was not at all keen to have him. I thought his drumming rather loud, his appearance unimpressive, and I could not see why he was important to the Beatles. But again I trusted their instincts and I am grateful now. He has become an excellent Beatle and a devoted friend. Ringo is warm and wry-witted, a good drummer, and I like him enormously. He is a very uncomplicated, very nice young man.

  Brian Epstein

  Nice, Grateful, Men

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• A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

  Channing Tatum

  Choices, Taste, Companion

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• Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Peace, War, Russia

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• How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so many excellent candidates.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Choices, Doe

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• A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

  Benjamin Watson

  Heart, Excellent Work, Effort

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• Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Support, Get Better

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• A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from these experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the possibilities in what some people call "the game of life." When we've "been there" and "done that," we can have as good of an idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is certainly an excellent teacher!

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Past, Games

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• Is it important that the rent of
  land be retained as a source of
  government revenue. Some persons
  who could make excellent use of
  land would be unable to raise money
  for the purchase price. Collecting
  rent annually provides access to
  land for persons with limited
  access to credit.

  Franco Modigliani

  Government, Land, Important

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• Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Exercise, Perfection

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• Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

  Gore Vidal

  Sarcasm, Laughing, Way

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• It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Writing, Discipline

  "A Joy for Ever: And Its Price in the Market". Book by John Ruskin, note 6, 1857.

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• The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although not for children, the story is a good reminder to adults of what really matters!

  Alex Kendrick

  Song, Children, Powerful

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• Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, People, Mind

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• And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Tree, Age, Ordinary

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• David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he's a fantastic director.

  Michael Clarke

  Long, Directors, Fantastic

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