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«Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life»
«The true magnitude of the Nobel Committee's blunder in awarding the Prize to Kissinger didn't become apparent until the destabilization of Cambodia, set in motion by American intervention, produced the Khmer Rouge and the slaughter of over a million»
«The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.»
«Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.»
«The prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage and determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.»
«Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety»
«Store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and judge the prize.»
«To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: prize, valor
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
«The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Courage | Keywords: decently, manfully, prize

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