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• Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Money, Buying Things

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• I feel that the All-Star game is more like a party because its made up of a lot of elements. However the core of All-Star is still the 48 minute-game and all the fans will pay all attention to the showcase of the players excellent skills. The result of the game is not much of a concern.

  Yao Ming

  Stars, Party, Player

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• The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Prayer, Mean, Blessing

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• Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Music, Thinking, Idols

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• Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Thinking, Play

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• Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

  Jennifer Lee Carrell

  Knowledge, Quality, Suspects

  Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.57, Penguin

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• The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

  Pierre Charron

  Wise, Wisdom, Learning

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• To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower.

  Herb Kelleher

  Leader, Followers, Superb

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• A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.

  Bill Ford

  Inspiring, Doe, World

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• One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

  Brian Tracy

  Past, People, Accomplishment

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• The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Communication, Long, Example

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!

  Tove Jansson

  Writing, Adventure, Childhood

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• Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

  George Washington

  Peace, Opportunity, Blood

  Attributed to George Washington in the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (p. 3, column 1), November 14, 1787.

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• The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Husband, Animal, Intelligent

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, 1609.

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• 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

  Taste, Contemplation, Standards

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.137

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• The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.

  Albert Einstein

  Cousin, Solitude, Mind

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.441, Princeton University Press

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• In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and old, will feel encouraged and enlightened by this excellent DVD which offers a wonderful range of specific advice and suggestive comments from a group of experienced and thoughtful writers.

  Margot Livesey

  Thoughtful, Dvds, Advice

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• The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes is an excellent book for student athletes to understand what it takes to be successful. It covers all phases of life, and it is filled with wonderful wisdom. Illustrated by brilliant examples of very successful people, The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes forces student athletes to use their common sense as they work to achieve their goals. Raven Magwood is a very talented person and an extremely gifted writer.

  Danny Ford

  Book, Athlete, Successful

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• Excellent wine generates enthusiasm. And whatever you do with enthusiasm is generally successful.

  Philippe de Rothschild

  Wine, Successful, Enthusiasm

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• If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.

  J. C. Kumarappa

  Men, Animal, Discipline

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• Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

  Benjamin Moser

  Relief, Passionate, Sacred

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• The Dies tournament is always hard. We look forward to it every year from a competitive level. This is one of the biggest highlights of our season. This tournament has excellent tradition.

  Don King

  Years, Looks, Levels

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• I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Parent, Married, Made

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• Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

  Esi Edugyan

  Blood, Years, Half

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