#nobel

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. ↗

— Alfred Day Hershey

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I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#aspirations #award #broadway #i #like

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. ↗

— John Bolton

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#bonus #give #lovely #money #nobel

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #dead #give #had #i

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. ↗

— Willard Libby

#clearly #deal #done #forth #goals