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• Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

  Mason Cooley

  Apathy, Indifference, Substitutes

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• The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Discipline, Followers, Opinion

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

  Joseph Joubert

  Humor, Wings, Mind

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• There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

  Edward Coke

  Jewels, Law, Land

  Sir Edward Coke, Steve Sheppard (2003). “The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

  Jay McInerney

  New York, Book, Thinking

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• Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a common ancestor that lived billions of years ago. Yet most of the life that exists on Earth has never been properly classified.

  Paul Davies

  Years, Alternatives, Earth

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• A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Book, Reading, Men

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• I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.

  Jennie Garth

  School, Students, Hours

  "Jennie Garth: 'When I Was 17'". www.seventeen.com. August 20, 2010.

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• Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

  Alexander Pope

  Powerful, Learning, Science

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.118

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• First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

  Hippocrates

  Education, Art, Science

  Hippocrates (2007). “The Law”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world ... write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

  Ian Mckellen

  Democracy, Cable Tv, Care

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• Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Teacher, Teaching, College

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• In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

  Roger Enrico

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wind

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• Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Beautiful, Cutting, People

  "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.

  D. W. Griffith

  Supposing That, Giving, Acting

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• I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Country, Home, America

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

  Clancy Brown

  People, Matter, Intimidating

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• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Done, Weight, Maintenance

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• The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

  Idris Elba

  Light, Long, Green

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• My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

  Kenneth Arrow

  New York, Sacrifice, College

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• I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

  Phil Anselmo

  Song, Musician, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

  Harry Browne

  School, Poor Education, Government

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• Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

  Aeschylus

  Science, Numbers, Invention

  Aeschylus (1922). “Four Plays of Aeschylus”

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• ...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.

  Xenophanes

  Wisdom, Horse, Athlete

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