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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. We ought to smell, as it were, the difference of quality in men and their proposals when we enter the world of affairs about us.

William James

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Margaret Thatcher is a brilliant tyrant surrounded by mediocrities.

Stockton

— 1986 In Newsweek,12 Oct.

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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

cesare lombroso

— Pt. II, ch. 2

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The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. The incongruity is speaking; and I imagine it must engender among the mediocrities a very peculiar attitude, towards the nobler and showier sides of national life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

— Crabbed Age and Youth.

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You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Guy de Maupassant

— "Sundays of a Bourgeois"

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