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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less. ↗

— Pete Sampras

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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