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Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

George Will

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mediocrity

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

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People

Mediocrity

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Anne Rice

Mediocrity

World

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

Sean Penn

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Mediocrity

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Herman Melville