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I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up ↗

— Frank O'Hara

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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Anything worth doing, is worth doing right. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

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jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said, pulling out a clipboard. I let out an impressed whistle. "Excellent! I never thought we'd be that fast." Fang shot me a look and I put my hand over my mouth. ↗

— James Patterson

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Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. ↗

— Criss Jami

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Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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