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• My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children.

  Heather McDonald

  Dad, Children, Judgement

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• [Wladimir] Klitschko is a different kettle of fish to Haye. He is a genuine man with an excellent team behind him and they are genuine fighting people.

  Tyson Fury

  Team, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It is easier to talk about issues; it is easier to say you're a feminist because it's actually awesome to be one. The panopoly of people identifying as feminists is really excellent now that we've come to a point where all these really interesting voices are rising up and saying they're feminists - women of color, trans people, gay folks, everybody. It's an exciting time to actually define as that because it means that people are really feeling like their voice is what's the most important thing in the movement, and I love that.

  Lizz Winstead

  Mean, Gay, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Wise, Art

  "A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". Book edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg, 1970.

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• Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Procrastination, Self

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I was happiest at lunchtime, playing with my friends. But I love science now, that's the funny thing. And I'd be so good at geography, as I've been fortunate enough to travel the world.

  Peter Andre

  Drama, Math, Funny Things

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.

  Martin Luther

  Healing, Doctors, Skills

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.317

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• Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, May, Treasure

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Life of Christ”, p.466

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• As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Growing Up, Teaching

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• Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.

  John Locke

  Wise, Nature, Mean

  John Locke (1815). “An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].”, p.96

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• The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals.

  John Adams

  Men, Religion, Principles

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• [T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.

  John Adams

  Art, Freedom, Men

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.440

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• A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Men, Presidential

  Diary and Autobiography, 14 Nov. 1760

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• In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Use, Statistics

  Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.360

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• Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Light, Perfection, Excellence

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.125

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• If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

  John Gerard

  May, Satisfaction, Plant

  John Gerard, (2013). “Gerard's Herball - Or, Generall Historie of Plantes”, p.3, Read Books Ltd

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• The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many
  suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Errors

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• Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

  David Zucker

  Movie, Thinking, Big Fish

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

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• When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Appreciation, Morning, Light

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• Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Jobs, Expectations

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• An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

  Mike Carey

  Book, Horror, Premises

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• It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Eye, Perspective, Perfection

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• What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

  William Morris

  Artist, Determined, Workmen

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

  Elizabeth George

  Worry, Trust In God, Habit

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Breaking the Worry Habit...Forever!: God's Plan for Lasting Peace of Mind”, p.20, Harvest House Publishers

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