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• And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!

  Tom Peters

  Business, Remembers Everything, Vulnerable

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• Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us. I think you know my Luna?" he added to Ron."Yes" said Ron. "Isn't she with you?""She lingered in that charming little garden to say hello to the gnomes, such a glorious infestation! How few wizards realize just how much we can learn from the wise little gnomes - or, to give then their correct names, the Gernumbli gardensi.""Ours do know a lot of excellent swear words," said Ron, "but I think Fred and George taught them those.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Daughter, Garden

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• It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Divinity, Divine

  Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.193, Roger Bishop Jones

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• During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. But most reflect George Bernard Shaw’s warning that 'if you do not tell your stories others will tell them for you and they will vulgarize and degrade you.'

  Ishmael Reed

  Men, White Man, Black

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• A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Children, Perfect Parents

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• The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Perfect

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• Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.

  Kate Chopin

  Exercise, Race, People

  Kate Chopin (2011). “The Awakening and Other Writings”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• [from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.

  Jasper Fforde

  Party, Intelligent, Awards

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• I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in choosing where to point a finger. We are all needy, all vulnerable, all terrified that perhaps that person has an excellent reason to withhold affection. We shape our purposes to make ourselves worthy and often do not see until much later how it was love-or perhaps the lack of it-that both picked us up and dropped us off at crossroads.

  Kevin Hearne

  Love, Purpose, Shapes

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• Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

  Joseph Joubert

  Agriculture, Kind, Good Sense

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Home's the most excellent place of all.

  Neil Diamond

  Home

  Twitter post from Mar 01, 2009

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• 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

  Anchors, Skills, People

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• An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.

  Robin Sharma

  Choices, Lucky, Break

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 13, 2014

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• You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Sorry, Eye

  "How Can I Become the Woman of Whom I Dream?". Ensign magazine, p. 93, May 2001.

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• There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning sin. (Mark 16:16) ... Before Christ can be received, the heart must be emptied and opened: but men's heart's are full of self-righteousn ess and vain confidence (Rom 10:3).

  John Flavel

  Heart, Men, Self

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• At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

  Todd Skinner

  Real, Climbing, Focus

  Todd Skinner (1993). “Modern Rock Climbing: Sport Climbing and Top Roping Beyond the Basics”, Ics Books

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• Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Missing, Excellence

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• Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Genius, Compass

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• A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong.

  David Belle

  Train

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• Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

  Nick Bantock

  Writing, Long, Letters

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• Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

  Tony Robbins

  Perfect, Trying, Example

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

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• When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

  Jane Austen

  House, Library, Miserable

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Mean, Athlete, Athletic

  "CrossFit: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" by Mark Rippetoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2013.

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• I have a friend who is an excellent liar. His secret: Believe the lie yourself when you're telling it.

  Jack Heffron

  Liars, Lying, Believe

  Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.100, Writer's Digest Books

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• "I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I think the crop will be poor." Ignoring her remark, the editor caused to be inserted in the evening paper his estimate of the crop situation. That night when he returned home he found the housekeeper waiting for him with a sheepish grin on her face and a copy of the paper in her hand. "I was wrong," she said apologetically. "It says right here in the paper that the crop will be excellent this fall."

  James Keller

  Morning, Fall, Home

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