#ellen

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence. ↗

— John Strachan

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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively. ↗

— Socrates

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When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care. ↗

— Vincent Frank

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The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

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I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#enough #gods #grateful #i #ian

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#brilliant #close #close attention #goes #i

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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