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single mediocrity, she could feel the ravening joy of her twin cravings rising in her
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Some towns here around me are wholly given over to mediocrity
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While he foresaw an evening of single mediocrity, she could feel the ravening joy of her twin cravings rising in her gorge
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To excel in any profession, in which but few arrive at mediocrity, it is the most decisive mark
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the culture of mediocrity and opt into the culture of
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easy road is the path of mediocrity
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Where the church benefices are all nearly equal, none of them can be very great; and this mediocrity of benefice, though it may be, no doubt, carried too far, has, however, some very agreeable effects
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The mediocrity of church benefices naturally tends to draw the greater part of men of letters in the country where it takes place, to the employment in which they can be the most useful to the public, and at the same time to give them the best education, perhaps, they are capable of receiving
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If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expense of defending those provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishment in time of peace; and endeavour to accommodate her future views and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances
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He could have taken that realisation on board at a much earlier age, and accepted mediocrity
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It will never be the same or up to the SAP standards as long as this happens and now a culture of mediocrity developed
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The hastening of scholastic mediocrity in America‘s (urban) Public School System is understood by the efforts of (its) soft-headed administrators and educators seeking to promote equality of results at the expense of its brightest students, many of whom are routinely held in check in order to allow their less talented classmates ―sufficient‖ opportunity to play catch-up; oftentimes necessitating a lowering of academic standards for the ―benefit‖ of other students who are intellectually less gifted, thereby promoting false impressions of academic achievement where performance results are (oftentimes) questionable
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In this manner, mediocrity in the classroom has become a self-fulfilling prophecy that, for egalitarian reasons, seeks to ―level‖ the intellectual playing field by penalizing students who (otherwise) have the potential to perform on a higher level
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It can make him a mediocrity if he is afraid of it
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in the maze of mediocrity
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How did we get into this predicament? How do we get out? The most saddening human dimension is the generations of mediocrity that we have produced
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Together we are producing mediocrity in America
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of school-reform efforts undertaken by the 50 states, concludes that public schools are “rife with mediocrity
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mediocrity and do what they love
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"Mediocrity is always a safe option but never a satisfactory one
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A good example is the conservatives’ continuation of big government departments including the huge financial outlays for federal education programs, which have produced only extensive mediocrity in the education of our children
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People who were sick of the poverty and mediocrity of their lives, just like I was twenty years ago when a small book changed my life forever
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“Think of the places in your business where the presence of passion really matters — making you stand out beyond the rest, or sink into mediocrity
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live a life of mediocrity
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this is not to say that you're supposed to accept mediocrity – hell no
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and mediocrity struck me then as it always did
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A recipe for mediocrity rather than fame
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ordinary like others, who had have chosen mediocrity
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This wife could have resigned herself to a life of mediocrity, but she refused to do
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fol owing its suggestions, turn the tide from mediocrity to a life of happiness and
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At the same time he warned them against the dangers of the dullness of overconservative mediocrity
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If I have remained a year – well, a year is neither here nor there in the big scheme of things, I cannot step down to mediocrity
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If we want the arts – and we can’t exist as a progressive society without them – we are going to have to put up with some mediocrity
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out of life, and that life was too short to settle for mediocrity
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Always remember, my fellow Champions, that when the crowd of “they” say there’s no sense in going further and that everything has already been explored, don’t believe it! Don’t settle for mediocrity
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Even sociologists, such as Tammas Garcia, have confirmed the old cliche that all we’re doing is breeding mediocrity, continually lowering the standards of human potential
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become patron saint of all mediocrity, "full of sound and fury, signifying Nothing!", on this planet
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"You know what, we should make up our own ‘statement wear’ that makes our stance clear on those life-swindling, interfering types who feel the need to infect someone else's success with their own foolproof formula for mediocrity
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Nothing of this life at all, a complete and utter third dimension that we have never actually experienced because we were probably told that succeeding in mediocrity is the way to feel good
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It is the idea of constant and continual improvement that moves someone from mediocrity to superiority
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It is a trap that will only keep you in mediocrity
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It absolutely promotes mediocrity, and lack of achievement, and lack of potential, and destroys dreams
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‘Having said that, I might add, the mediocrity of man gets reflected in the bringing up of children
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It is another matter that Islam, in time, reduced all of them into mediocrity as V
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Take pride in yourself: Start believing that you deserve more than being a part of the cold, grey herd of mediocrity
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“This exactly is the mediocrity
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of mediocrity would look down their noses at Alan
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As long as you can only do the ordinary things you will be counted in the mass of mediocrity
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hated the mediocrity of the suburban life, the boring afternoons
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Which is designed to produce only? Mediocrity and shit that is even more complicated than the crap that is sold now
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Which is designed to produce only mediocrity and shit that is even more complicated than the crap that is sold now
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One problem with the profit motive is that anything that is creatively new and fresh quickly gets commercialized into mass mediocrity
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The pull towards mediocrity was a set frame of mind
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The salon, inevitably, slipped back to its former mediocrity but I do not think anyone noticed
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It has been whitewashing itself into higher and higher levels of sterile, immaculate, antiseptic deadness and whiteness, and goodness, and mediocrity, and identicality
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Leaving the debris of mediocrity to the BEAST
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But what about the Law of Mediocrity you say? If everyone is Universally Equal to everyone else: with no competition, won’t this institute laws which forces mankind farther down into a faceless mass of mediocre sameness and incompetence? The answer to that is the Law of Universal Equality does the exact opposite of becoming more mediocre
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In a hierarchical pyramidal society based upon one-sided accumulation: any blade of grass which grows higher than all the others has its head cut off or pounded back down with a hammer by the huge unfair advantages which all the millions of people who are higher up on the ladder of hierarchical wealth/power/authority/status have… This is where the dynamic of Mediocrity comes from in the first place
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The Principle of increasing mediocrity is only one symptom of the many ills and fallacies of the hierarchical pyramidalization of human society which allows only the worst to seep to the top and crushes the best, instead of the other way around
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What does this have to do with the Law of ever-increasing mediocrity? Everything
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homogeneity was the noblest ideal and mediocrity the goal of every
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billionth life of third-rate mediocrity, non-achievement, boredom and
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yourself to a life of third-rate mediocrity
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stayed trapped in my mediocrity and fear,' he said flatly as he squinted in the sunlight
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Domestic mediocrity drove her to lewd fancies, marriage tenderness to adulterous desires
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Then they talked about provincial mediocrity, of the lives it crushed, the illusions lost there
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As if twenty times already she had not sufficiently perceived his mediocrity
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There is an immense force of suggestion in highly organised mediocrity
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Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles
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Then they talked about provincial mediocrity, of the lives it
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Handel—and other curious Germans or Italians who sing in Gibberish no True-born Englishman can understand—and in Painting, they call for the Italian Rogues, spend Fortunes upon Forgeries of Nymphs and Dragons, or else pay Homage to a Mountebank like William Kent, who declares all Englishmen devoid of Craft and Art, paints Pretty Pictures in the Italian Mode, styles himself a noble Ancient Roman, and hath the Earl of Burlington to lick his Arse and settle his Bills for Port! By God, Fanny, I hate the Palladians worse e’en than the Italian Charlatans, for they spit upon our Native English Genius, whilst they tout the rankest Mediocrity in the Name of Noble Rome!”
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Almost without exception, the returns of incubated and fee-waived funds have faded into mediocrity after outside investors poured millions of dollars into them
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Great investors don’t strive for mediocrity
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But not only do they rarely beat the market, a significant majority are charging astronomical fees for their mediocrity
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But try to prove something! If you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere
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all the languages of Europe, and, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to chimeras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling
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What hard data they possessed pointed to mediocrity in all areas of Taj’s life: his grades, his extracurricular activities, his military rec-ord
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Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought
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You will take in the whole of the past, you will consider times, persons, and probabilities, and you will feel that they were not least your friends who were educating and preparing you for that mediocrity of condition which seemed to be your lot
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Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals—morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask
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'■ The fanaticism, the romanticism of insignificance and impotence ! " people will pronounce, " the triumph of common-placeness and mediocrity ! " Yes, I admit that it is in a way the triumph of commonplaceness and mediocrity, but surelj' not of impotence
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But what are the men I've broken with? The enemies of all true life, out-of-date Liberals who are afraid of their own independence, the flunkeys of thought, the enemies of individuality and freedom, the decrepit advocates of deadness and rottenness! All they have to offer is senility, a glorious mediocrity of the most bourgeois kind, contemptible shallowness, a jealous equality, equality without individual dignity, equality as it's understood by flunkeys or by the French in '93
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He, poor young man, was taken by thoughtful people, who had his welfare at heart, to that over-advertised home of mediocrity, the Théâtre Français, and to a “gala” performance at the Opéra; I—well, I went where I liked
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—This animal is of a fine shape: its size is rather above mediocrity, being about half a foot high, and the total length being twenty-seven inches, whereof nine form the tail
