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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

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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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It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence. ↗

— Edward Bok

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. ↗

— Max Lerner

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I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence. ↗

— John Metcalf

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For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.' ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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