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

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant 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.

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.

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

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.