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• Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

  Robert Graves

  War, Complaining, Survivor

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• Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow.

  Dick Cheney

  Lying, War, Opportunity

  "Libya: another neocon war" by David Swanson, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Long Ago, Mind

  "Nemesis". Book by Isaac Asimov. Introduction, 1989.

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• While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

  Douglass North

  Photography, School, College

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• An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of them was Dr. Bernstein. I had the good fortune to play him in the first round., and beat him in such fashion as to obtain the Rothschild prize for the most brilliant game ... a profound feeling of respect for my ability remained throughout the rest of the contest.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Fashion, Games, Play

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• A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.

  Alexander Morozevich

  Sports, Art, Struggle

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• In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.

  Mario Andretti

  Wine, Winning, Judging

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder… why didn't I get this sooner?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Awards, People, Honor

  "Ellen DeGeneres Birthday: 55 Reasons We Love Her" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Community, Matter

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 20, 2004.

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• Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Gone, Moments, Share

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• I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Nobel, Jew

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

  Michele Bachmann

  Believe, Intelligent, Design

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a trust and a shorthand and a lot of times you even reach the point, where in the process, you don't even have to talk.

  Edward Zwick

  Thinking, Working Together, Directors

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl - and for the woman an attractive man - are the prizes they are after. 'attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market. What specifically makes a person attractive depends on the fashion of the time, physically as well as mentally. ... Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Girl, Fashion

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.3, A&C Black

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• The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited with approval and with no apparent conscious irony my early poem, "No Alarms." The poem was composed probably sometime in 1974 or 1975, and it complained about the impossibility of writing poetry - of being a poet - under the conditions in which I was living then.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Judging, Alarms

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
  And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
  Nor all that glisters gold.

  Thomas Gray

  Heart, Eye, Gold

  "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat" l. 40 (1748)

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• [Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Expression, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.

  David Bennun

  Interesting, Literature, Bob

  Source: thequietus.com

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• What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Guy, Needs, What You Deserve

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.97, Penguin

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• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Eye, Opportunity, Men

  Yousuf Karsh, David Travis (2009). “Regarding Heroes”, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory; because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics; and I find much cause to reproach myself that I have lived so long, and have given no decided and public proofs of my being a Christian. But, indeed, my dear child, this is a character which I prize far above all this world has, or can boast.

  Patrick Henry

  Christian, Pain, Children

  "FIRST-PERSON: The faith of Patrick Henry" by Kelly Boggs, www.bpnews.net. June 27, 2014.

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• If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

  Bob Dylan

  Would Be, Bob, Easy

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.

  David Bennun

  Girl, Attitude, Believe

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The director, Moisés Kaufman, just received the national medal of the arts from President [Barack] Obama . He wrote and directed The Laramie Project and he has directed several Pulitzer prize-winning plays. He's a pretty profound director in the theater.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Art, Winning, Play

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• [Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

  Sjon

  Bob, Nobel, Worthy

  Source: wwd.com

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