#nobel

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#countrymen #forget #hand #me #nobel

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#i #i am #imposed #lifestyle #me

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#center #even #eventually #famous #front

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#award #cannot #difficult #i #ideals

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#expects #nobel #nobel prize #nobody #prize

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#congressional #equivalent #journalism #journals #laureates

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. ↗

— John Pople

#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. ↗

— Jon Porter

#been #century #community #fact #in fact

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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