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“If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”

“If you want to achieve Excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than Excellent work. The first 99.9% of getting from here to there is the determination to do it and not to compromise, no matter what set of road blocks those around you erect.”

“Bosses: You make your living going to meetings. Hence any meeting that does not bubble and incite enthusiasm is a forever-lost opportunity.”

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"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people…"

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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"The military should learn a lesson from the incident and correct its mistakes immediately after a review of its system. We must restore the people’s faith in the military."

— Ma Ying-jeou

Politics1950

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— Big L (rapper)

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