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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ↗

— Sophocles

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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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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone’s expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence. ↗

— Hope Solo

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People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right. ↗

— Joel Osteen

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Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing. ↗

— Steve Kluger

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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection? ↗

— Thomas Mann

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