Mark Twain Quotes, Achievement Quotes, Firsts Quotes

...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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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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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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The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

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The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

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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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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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

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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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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

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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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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

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High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

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How my achievements mock me!

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

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