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  • I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.

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  • Betty Field I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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  • George Allen People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
    George Allen
    American senator and politician (1952 - )
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  • Albert Einstein According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bart Starr During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
    Bart Starr
    American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Sam Walton Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Mary McCarthy The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Hannah Arendt The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Tony Robbins The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bill Walsh Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Joe Namath You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.
    Joe Namath
    American football quarterback and actor (1943 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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