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• I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.

  James C. Collins

  Powerful, Organization, People

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• God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare times show exceptional kindness. In spite of who we are and what we have done, God wants to pour out His love on us, for the unlovable are also precious unto Him.

  David B. Haight

  Kindness, Personality, Doe

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• Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

  Agnes Repplier

  Believe, Men, Grace

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• If
  you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from
  everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average
  person and be exceptional.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Average, Limits

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• From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Struggle, Taken

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

  Marco Rubio

  Opportunity, Land, America

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

  James D. Watson

  Motivational, Hands, Tunnels

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• People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

  Sarah Schulman

  People, Succeed, Made

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• To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Book, Desire, Identity

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• In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Culture, Facts

  "Stuff To Read: Fran Lebowitz Interview In Ruminator Magazine". Interview with Susannah McNeely, vdovault.wordpress.com. June 10, 2006.

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• In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

  Maud Adams

  Sweden, Actresses, Film

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• Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Exception To The Rule, Way

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• 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'.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Achievement, Degrees, Genius

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.100, Princeton University Press

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• With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving away from a generic line up and back into the world of a programmer. Born of reconstructed improvisation I like to think of it as Prog-Pop, but I also like to think of big dogs as small horses. So don’t hang on to that thought long. Unless, of course, you think it astute of me in which case I am right

  Alison Moyet

  Dog, Song, Horse

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• Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Dance, Moving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities that are the remnants of loss and dispossession in the law. Dogs and people are abundantly present here, even as the legal fictions they are made to inhabit are exposed with acid lucidity. These are hard histories made readable by Dayan's precious acts of writing.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Dog, Book, Writing

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• Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Clever, Book, Mean

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• Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Progress, Social Justice

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.74, Oxford University Press

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• I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only an extreme, not an aberration - that most people in some way or another do strive for something exceptional, something to pursue, even at their peril, rather than abide an ordinary life.

  Susan Orlean

  People, Way, Ordinary

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• Exceptional people learn that doing their best is all they can do.

  Wes Fesler

  People, Effort, Can Do

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• All that I now hold dear in life began to mature in the mission field. Had I not been encouraged to be a missionary, I would not have the eternal companion or precious family I dearly love. I am confident that I would not have had the exceptional professional opportunities that stretched my every capacity. I am certain that I would not have received the sacred callings with opportunities to serve for which I will be eternally grateful. My life has been richly blessed beyond measure because I served a mission.

  Richard G. Scott

  Blessed, Grateful, Opportunity

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• There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

  Anthony Trollope

  Music, Piano, Drawing

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.23

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Poet, Historian

  Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”

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• For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

  Jean Giono

  Mistake, Character, Years

  Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing

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