#achievement

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. ↗

— David Remnick

#achievements #bitterness #everything #gorbachev #him

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement. ↗

— David Remnick

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Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ↗

— Charles Kettering

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To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#entire #entire nation #fate #great #hands

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#among #beautiful #being #being beautiful #cannot

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#community #depends #every #her #his