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| "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters |
| Ayn Rand |
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| Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on. |
| Gustave Flaubert |
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| Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man |
| Horace |
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| Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! |
| Jean de la Bruyere |
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