“ The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. ”
- Theodor Reik- Copy
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“ Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ”
- Joseph Heller- Copy
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“ Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. ”
- Joseph Heller- Copy
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“ All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy. ”
- Scott Alexander- Copy
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“ In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
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“ It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ”
- George Will- Copy
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“ Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever. ”
- Brian Wilson- Copy
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“ It's a season with few highs and few lows, but the general level of mediocrity is higher than it has been. ”
- Robert Bianco- Copy
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“ Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul. ”
- John Randolph- Copy
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“ We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. ”
- Joe Manchin- Copy
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“ We must overcome the notion that we must be regular...it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. ”
- Uta Hagen- Copy
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