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• I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

  Horace Walpole

  Political, Politics, Way

  Horace Walpole, John Wright (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.313

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• It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Art, Fate, Long

  Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1892). “The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent”

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• I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sports, Art, Mean

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• I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

  John Romero

  Thinking, People, Scary

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• I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

  David Prowse

  Revenge, Thinking, Sith

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• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  Quintilian

  Faults, Brilliant, Impression

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics

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• But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Media, Brilliant

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

  David Crystal

  Relief, Swearing, Mechanism

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• You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Away From You

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• Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Judgment

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Heart, Men, Doe

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• What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

  Albert Camus

  Dying, Reason, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Esteem, Ocean, Quality

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• If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

  Earl Nightingale

  Attitude, World, Results

  Earl Nightingale (1969). “This is Earl Nightingale”, Doubleday Books

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• Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

  Tom Peters

  Quality, Essentials, Culture

  "In Search of Excellence". Book by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., 1982.

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• I think I'm a reporter's editor. Being a good reporter is a specific skill, one I admire and don't possess myself - I appreciate people who know how to ask the right questions, who are excellent researchers, who know how to assemble information, and I enjoy working with them to shape their information into an article. Good reporters tend to be receptive to editing, and to a more collaborative form of writing in general, and you always end up learning more from how they work than you expect you will.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

  Xi Jinping

  Beautiful, Home, Long

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• This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things. It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and, with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Peace, Kindness, Men

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• Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. "Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question." "D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern. "Think I did," said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. "One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Doors, Names

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• Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Dwarves, Hair

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, People, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

  Paulo Coelho

  Order, Important, World

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• He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Ideas, Details, Way

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.117, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  Anne Carson

  Mother, Hurt, Government

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