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  • Ben Bernanke Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Anita Roddick 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.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • P. T. Barnum Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Ferdinand Foch My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Anne Perry Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Aristotle No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Saskya Pandita Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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  • William Shakespeare O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Epictetus One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Seneca Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sir James Goldsmith The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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  • C. S. Lewis The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Hybels The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Machiavelli There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Joseph Joubert There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Francis Bacon There is no excellent beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Baltasar Gracián There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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