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| #7853 |  | Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing. -- Albert Schweitzer
 
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| #7854 |  | Excellence is THE trend of the '80s.  Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as
 "Garfield Gets Spayed", and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you
 how to be excellent: "In Search of Excellence", "Finding Excellence",
 "Grasping Hold of Excellence", "Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night
 So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It", etc.
 -- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence"
 
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| #7855 |  | Excess on occasion is exhilarating.  It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
 -- W. Somerset Maugham
 
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| #7856 |  | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what is wrong with it.
 
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| #7857 |  | Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
 -- Aldous Huxley
 
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| #7858 |  | Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
 -- Franklin P. Jones
 
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| #7859 |  | Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. 
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| #7860 |  | Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. 
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| #7861 |  | Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. 
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| #7862 |  | Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
 -- Clifton Fadiman, "Enter Conversing"
 
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