Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • George Wald We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are wiser than we know.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Richardson We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Billy Al Bengston We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bo Bennett We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Earl Nightingale We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • William Arthur Ward We can learn much from wise words, and less from wise guys.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bert McCracken We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Matthew McConaughey We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
    Matthew McConaughey
    American actor, director, producer, writer, and co-teacher (1969 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset 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.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Warren Buffett We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • David Grayson We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas J. Peters We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Charles Lamb We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Buffalo Bill We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Brit Hume We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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