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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.
Winston ChurchillRead
I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
Bobby KnightRead
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.
Linus PaulingRead
My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
Albert CamusRead
To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
Soichiro HondaRead
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
Salman RushdieRead
So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.
J. K. RowlingRead

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