#mediocrity

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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.


Robert Green Ingersoll


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It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.


Roberto Benigni


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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.


Herman Melville


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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.


John Stuart Mill


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Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.


Bruce Henderson


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I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.


Robert Baldwin


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Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.


Victor J. Banis


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my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness


Mil Millington


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People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear


Ayn Rand


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Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness.


Charlotte Brontë


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