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Excellence Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
- The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
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- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
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- I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. — Tyra Banks