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"But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation."
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"Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest."
"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."
"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?"
"Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress."
"Become so good they can't ingore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can't stand you, and you are on the path to greatness."
"A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence."
"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."
"Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness."
"Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work."
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"They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning."
"And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks."
"The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature."
"It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure."
"If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it."
"Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled."
"When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around."
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
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