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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the wa ...
But the way is wide over stubble and sands,
Wider and not too wide, as a dish in space
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The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best ...
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
You work hard to be good and then to be great, but when you're great, you don't just want to be good.
I don't want to be graded on a curve.
It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and ev ...
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
The highest good. [summum bonum.]
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