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Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed. - Walter

Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed. – Walter Russell

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There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration. – Walter Russell

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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

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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. – Charles G. Dawes

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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole. – Frank Moore Colby

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If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people. – Tom Murphy

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