#excel

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#bargain #discontented #excellent #frame #him

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. ↗

— Ted W. Engstrom

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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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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

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#every #excellent #goal #least #old

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' ↗

— Arthur Smith

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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds. ↗

— Mary Astell

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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