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“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness”
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“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”
Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
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“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”
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“I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.”
Source : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific
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“The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.”
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“Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.”
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.”
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“The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.”
Source : Abraham Flexner (1910). “Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching”
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“Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.”
