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• I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

  David Sarnoff

  Knowledge, Learning, Science

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• You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.

  Francis Crick

  Keys, Dna, Achievement

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• Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Responsibility, Self, Great Love

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• Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perseverance, Tired, Men

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• Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pain, Men, Effort

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

  George Mikes

  Achievement, Stupidity, Goes On

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• The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

  Jon Meacham

  Reality, Class, Achievement

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• I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.

  Antonin Kratochvil

  Suicide, Country, Lying

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• We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Civilization, Achievement, Darkness

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Sacrifice, Broken

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• The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.

  James Q. Wilson

  Wall, People, Achievement

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• It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

  Nikola Tesla

  Memorable, Two, Discovery

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• When I say "our," I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black person, just like a great achievement by an Anglo American is less important.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mean, America, Achievement

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.

  Ithiel de Sola Pool

  Struggle, Communication, Technology

  Ithiel de Sola POOL (2009). “Technologies of Freedom”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.

  Phyllis Rose

  Women, Expectations, Achievement

  Phyllis Rose (1991). “Never Say Goodbye: Essays”, Nan A. Talese

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• When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Irritation, Achievement, Mind

  Lewis Wolpert (2014). “The Unnatural Nature of Science”, p.79, Faber & Faber

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• A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

  Oleg Romanishin

  Success, Winning, Self

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• One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Intelligent, People

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.242, Harvard University Press

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• Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

  Robin Sharma

  Sacrifice, Achievement, Great Sacrifice

  Twitter post from Sep 08, 2016

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• Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Science, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Teacher, Book

  "The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans (p. 73), 1968.

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• The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Achievement, Unjust

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can! Every great achievement in this world was first carefully thought out. Think-but to a purpose. Think constructively. Think as you read. Think as you listen. Think as you travel and your eyes reveal new situations. Think as you work daily at your desk, or in the field, or while strolling. Think to rise and improve your place in life. There can be no advancement or success without serious thought

  George Matthew Adams

  Inspiration, Eye, Thinking

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• There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

  J. G. Holland

  Motivational, Wrestling, Achievement

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