#prize

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

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So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's. ↗

— Roberta Flack

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A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little. ↗

— Richard Harris

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

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The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues. ↗

— Robert Hofstadter

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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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