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Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good. — Charles Caleb Colton
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war. — Chesty Puller
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. — Seneca the Younger
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment… — Thornton Wilder
It is easier to begin well than to finish well. — Plautus
When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as… — Tom Glazer
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to… — Lord Acton
This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and… — Hippocrates
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. — Michel de Montaigne
The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait… — Tom Peters
Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm. — T. Harv Eker
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and… — Wolfgang Ostwald
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during… — Hippocrates
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is… — Michel de Montaigne
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious… — Jerome K. Jerome
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays. — Coco Chanel
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the… — Lachlan Murdoch
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. — Russell Lynes
In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces.… — James Keller
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent… — Margaret Oliphant
Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and… — Ben Bernanke
Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as… — Aimee Mullins

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