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«It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.»
Author: David Joseph Schwartz
| Keywords:
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«Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
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A level, courtesy, imponderable, imponderables, surpassed, thins, unimpaired
«There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
communicate, conducive, inquisitive, Libraries, surpassed, translator, translators
«A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence»
Author: Howard Eves
| About:
Mathematics
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discomforting, discomforts, formal, manipulator, surpassed, surpasses, surpassing
«Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
dying, maintain, occupied, occupying, perpetuated, perpetuating, surpassed, surpassing
«High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Beethoven, characterizes, Considering, European, napoleon, obsession, perversion, perversions, predecessor, relay, relayed, relay race, Robespierre, runner, runners, runner up, stadium, stadiums, successor, surpassed, surpasses, The Runner, The Sequence
«Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
creature, strives, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, yearns
«On Monday, President Bush will reach his 100th day in office. It's a big milestone for him, surpassed all expectations. In fact, so has Dick Cheney. Cheney was only supposed to make it to day 73.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
Cheney, dick, milestone, milestones, Monday, President Bush, surpassed
«In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.»
«Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
achievements, conquer, enlightened, enlightening, foreknowledge, general, ordinary, prince, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, The Enemy
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