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• If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Humble, Humility, Men

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• I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Inspiration

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• Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Tennis, Beginners

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• For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Honor

  Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). “The banquet (also known as The symposium)”

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• When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

  Plato

  Wine, Men, Granted

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• The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.

  Muhammad

  Holy Prophet, Self, Jihad

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• Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Inspiring, Weakness, Definitions

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Girlfriend, Powerful, Stories

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• I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent.

  Ross McKitrick

  Lying, Collaboration, Layers

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• Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. Sure, we have to hold out for high standards in the products or services we provide. The goods must be more than "good enough." But so must our approach - you know, our methodology, the way we do business and deal with people. How could the ends be considered excellent if we can't be proud of the means?

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Mean, People

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• The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

  Aristotle

  Life, Inspire, Excellence

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

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• Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

  Jamie Drummond

  Reality, Ideas, Broken

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• Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and new information. We do not disparage those ideas derived from religious experience, altered states of consciousness, or the emotions; we merely declare that testing these ideas against reality is the only way to determine their validity as knowledge.

  Fred Edwords

  Religious, Inspiration, Reality

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• Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

  David E. Kelley

  Teacher, School, Imagination

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• Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.

  Noah Webster

  Order, People, Dancing

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• I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Real, Reading, Expression

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.10473, Delphi Classics

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• As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.

  Azim Premji

  Learning, Way, Staff

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• Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Work, Average, Excellence

  Brian Tracy (2013). “Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market”, p.35, Vanguard Press

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• If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the ignorant man) seems exceedingly hard, it may nevertheless be discovered. Needs must it be hard, since it is so seldom found. How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labour be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wise, Men, Hands

  Ethics pt. 5 (1677) (translation by Edwin Curley)

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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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• Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.'

  Charley Reese

  Years, Class, Voice

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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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