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I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function. ↗

— Donald Norman

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It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery. ↗

— John Norman

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Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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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

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. ↗

— Satchel Paige

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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. ↗

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end. ↗

— Debi Thomas

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Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗