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• The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

  Albert Camus

  Fighting, History, Cases

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.139, Vintage

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• Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

  Socrates

  Car, Soul, Reputation

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• A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Ideas, Suggestions, Groups

  Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)

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• I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.

  Glenn Hughes

  Spiritual, Blessing, Thank God

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• As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Kindness, Compassion

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

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• The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.

  Stefan Collini

  Enlightenment, Moral, Newton

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Teaching, Thinking, Years

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Risk, Welfare, Neighbor

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in.

  Edgar Berman

  Cancer, Heart, Dark

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• What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Men, Years

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• There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  New York, Cities, Government

  The New York Times, p. 69, April 25, 1971.

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• Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.

  Paul Fussell

  Strong, Military, Discipline

  "Private Ryan was a hero, but there were bums, too" by Stephen Ambrose, www.cnn.com. August 5, 1998.

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• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

  David Brooks

  Jumping, Race, Lust

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• Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

  Ai Weiwei

  Men, Judging, Gold

  "Gold Is Not the Real Measure of a Nation". www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2008.

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• Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

  Lord Acton

  Trust, Names, Judgement

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

  Pierre Laval

  Country, Fate, Past

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• However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

  Richard O'Brien

  Together, Three, World

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• The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense of pride in their own civilization because of the prestige that science fhas in the present day world. It is furthermore a testament to the way Islam was able to cultivate various sciences extensively without becoming alienated from the Islamic world view and without creating a science whose application would destroy the world of nature and the harmony that must exist between man and the natural environment.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Pride, Men

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• Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Taken, Thinking, Medicine

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• Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, Father, Important

  "Haunted by Halloween". The New York Times, October 31, 1990.

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• A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

  Charles Rosen

  Art, Decision, Attention

  Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not simply the brightest who have the best ideas; it is those who are best at harvesting ideas from others. It is not only the most determined who drive change; it is those who most fully engage with like-minded people. And it is not wealth or prestige that best motivates people; it is respect and help from peers.

  Alex Pentland

  Ideas, People, Peers

  Alex Pentland (2014). “Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter”, p.8, Penguin

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• The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

  Benjamin Graham

  War, Would Be, Might

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part II, Chapter VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Units, p. 97, 1937.

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• There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

  Abraham Maslow

  Achievement, Independence, Desire

  Abraham Maslow “A Theory of Human Motivation”, Lulu.com

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• A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Fame, Painter, Sooner Or Later

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