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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

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My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

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

— Francis Bacon

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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I excelled in English while I was at school. ↗

— Jamie Bell

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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

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People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays. ↗

— James Cronin

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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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