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Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. ↗

— Hun Sen

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A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

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The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

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

— Benjamin Jowett

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I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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