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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. — P T Barnum
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. — Mortimer Adler
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the… — Donald Berwick
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. — Napoleon Bonaparte
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. — Thomas Carlyle
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a… — Chanakya
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. — Anton Chekhov
If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results. — Earl Nightingale
My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers,… — Antony Hewish
Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of… — Gil Amelio
Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor… — Edward de Bono
A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot… — Osbert Sitwell
The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious… — J I Packer
There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course… — Saint Augustine
That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised. — Warren Buffett

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