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"Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!"

"Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?"

"A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!"

"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."

"Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty."

"Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!"

"Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before!"

"A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence."

"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
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"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."

"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."

"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."

"You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?"

"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."

"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."

"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network."

"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."
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