"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."

People, Greatness, Excellence

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"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

Nick Hornby, English Writer

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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community."

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"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."

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"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."

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"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."

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"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."

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"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."

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"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

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"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."

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"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."

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