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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Achievements All Night Another Catching Done Hear Never Night Presence Salmon Some Them Those Which Who Working

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When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.

~Apollonius Of Tyana

Topics: Achievements Complete Crossed Digging Having Him His Neither Nor Praise Review Sail See Through Will I Can

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You know, sometimes you're jealous of other people and their achievements, and you wanna be that person, but I've come to realize that each individual on this planet has his own path.

~Armin Van Buuren

Topics: Achievements Come Each Each Individual His Individual Jealous Know Other Own Path People Person Planet Realize Sometimes Wanna You

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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Achievements Between Consciousness Contemporary Crying Extinction Happens Islam Islamic Muslims Need Outstanding Race Virtue World

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Achievements Distrust Generally Greatest Human Human Mind Mind Received

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If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Achievements Bring Even Happy Much Satisfaction You Yourself

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The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

~Benjamin Jowett

Topics: Achievements Cost Personality Rewards Society Which Won

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I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

~Bill Paxton

Topics: Achievements Career Day Day One Direct Drama Got Human Interest Pride Proudest Source Sports

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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

~Bob Woodward

Topics: Achievements Affairs Foreign Gets Had Head Large List Nixon One Thing President Remembered Some Suspect Thing Watergate Will

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I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: Achievements Around Beings Cannot Feeling Human Human Beings Judge Lives Natural Others Them Themselves Think Wishing

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