Tocqueville's arias to excellence and warnings about mediocrity have misled people into thinking him a snob.
The stimulus bill's spending on infrastructure may have been doomed to mediocrity from the start.
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You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
The difference between mediocrity and success is often found in the ability to focus.
Tiger parents express their love through expectation of greatness, not in acceptance of mediocrity.
He could have added: If it isn't changed, Japan itself may be doomed to economic mediocrity.
It is no longer about finding purpose in mediocrity, as the BBC version reflected.
And investors and customers, perhaps the most important of stakeholders, tend to punish mediocrity.
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But in this day and age, that is a sure-fire way to lapse into mediocrity.
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"I think there's a culture in this administration that's an acceptance of mediocrity, " Fulop said.
In fact, in the NFL, we far to often mistake widespread mediocrity with true parity.
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One French journalist even warned that the club was in danger of "slipping inexorably towards mediocrity".
Yes, the most valuable company on the planet will slowly fade into stagnant mediocrity.
President Fernandez described his comments as an "expression of mediocrity, and almost of stupidity".
Today, however, middle-class shoppers around the world are not content to be marooned in mediocrity.
Yet in language as in most things, the Major era has been one of mediocrity.
Add it all up and you see a pattern: eight figures annually for mediocrity.
You and I, by the way, are paying for this surfeit of backward-leaning mediocrity.
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If mediocrity and maddening inconsistency have any benefits, it's that they produce scenarios nobody has ever imagined.
Mediocrity across the rest of the roster, little in the farm system and a ton of debt.
Bank earnings have also been lackluster, but it appears mediocrity is enough to help bounce the sector.
But in many other cases, the mergers will serve only to create mediocrity on a larger scale.
To win, you have to have an inner arrogance to propel yourself above mediocrity and past your peers.
If mediocrity and maddening inconsistency have any benefit, it is that they produce scenarios nobody could have imagined.
Out of the ashes of ineptitude and mediocrity, Jeffrey Loria is diligently trying to resurrect the Miami Marlins.
You can get lost in the fog of mediocrity and ideals built upon assumptions that lead to predetermined conclusions.
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And even then: I think lucidity gives your success a bitter taste, whereas mediocrity still leaves hope for something.
The world thinks this way because they see the growing mediocrity in our students, politicians, workers, and culture.
It is the case now that we have mediocrity in our surgical centres rather than excellence across the board.
The ability to limit purchases by day and food type empowers parents to dole-out treats in celebration of mediocrity.
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