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“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
— Colin Powell
U.S. Secretary of State and general
This evokes Will Durant's famous summation of Aristotle: "Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
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