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"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
