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  • At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
  • We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
  • When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
  • Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
  • An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
  • I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
  • Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
  • How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
  • Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
  • It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • William Shenstone A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • William Shakespeare Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Saskya Pandita An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bobby Flay Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • François Fénelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henrik Ibsen Don't use that foreign word ''ideals.'' We have that excellent native word ''lies.''
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Ben Shapiro During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Sir John Lubbock Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • J. Russel Lynes Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
    J. Russel Lynes
     
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  • Augustus Hare Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Thomas J. Peters Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Brit Hume Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Warren Buffett Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • David Hume He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Ben Horowitz How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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