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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Topics: Achievements After Dedicated Happiness Making More Running Solid Swift Synthetic Than

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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Topics: Achievements Acknowledge Amazing Embarrassed Great Great Nation Here India Many Me Media Nation Negative Our Own Recognise Refuse Stories Strengths Success Tell Them Why

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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

~Abdolkarim Soroush

Topics: Achievements Democracy Democrats Established Faithful Idea Movement Muslims Now People Realize Reform Remain

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It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

~Adam Clayton

Topics: Achievement Achievements Bent Bit Career Confusing Dessert Early Fame Get Important Itself Like Little Little Bit Out Shape Sometimes Terms Very Work You Your

Keywords: Ability


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Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

~Adam Clayton

Topics: Achievement Achievements Dessert Fame Itself Like Sometimes Work Your

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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.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: Achievements Between Contrast Democracy Forever Heroic Ideals Possibilities Realities Sorry Us

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I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

~Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Topics: About Achievements Rooftops Type Yell

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The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Achievements Attracting Been Both Disguise Forced Humanities Matter Money Obsessed Prestige Really Sake Science Students Subjects Themselves Why World

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When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're still really no closer to a human expedition to Mars, but that shouldn't detract from the amazing achievements that are being done on a day-to-day basis by robotic envoys.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Achievements Amazing Basis Being Being Done Closer Course Day-To-Day Done Expedition Gone Human Informed Kid Mars Really Robotic Still

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I think that my humble beginnings were very deliberate, and I'm grateful for them because I'm not sure I would see my achievements the same way if they were handed to me. I'm not sure my work ethic would be the same.

~Aldis Hodge

Topics: Achievements Because Beginnings Deliberate Ethic Grateful Handed Humble Me Same See Sure Them Think Very Way Were Work Work Ethic Would I Think

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