Alan Lightman Quotes, Determination Quotes, Achievement Quotes

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

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Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

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The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

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

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It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

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Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

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Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

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Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

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E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together.

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The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

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Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.

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We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

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It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.

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