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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. — James A. Michener
We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. — Roger Moore
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction. — Nathan Myhrvold
At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us… — Liam Neeson
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. — Ingrid Newkirk
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery. — John Norman
Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! — P.J. O'Rourke
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. — Barack Obama
I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both… — Nick Offerman
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. — Tom Peters
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide… — Tom Peters
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what… — Plutarch
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at… — Paul Rand
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave… — Anita Roddick
That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool! — Adam Savage
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. — Marilyn vos Savant
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in… — Douglas Sirk
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. — Baruch Spinoza
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost… — Baruch Spinoza
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a… — Laurence Sterne
The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead. — James Surowiecki
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it… — Twyla Tharp

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