#prize

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In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.


Constance Baker Motley


#essay #got #had #high #high school

In war there is no prize for runner-up.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#runner-up #war

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.


F. E. Smith


#glittering #hearts #offer #prizes #sharp

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.


Simon van der Meer


#astonishing #children #conditions #education #fact

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.


Stanford Moore


#aura #ceremony #chemist #grown #intellectual

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.


Keith O'Brien


#become #doubt #importance #inclined #influence

I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.


Dana Rohrabacher


#believe #cash #encourage #exploration #greater

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.


Jose Saramago


#before #friends #habits #i #i am

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.


Herbert Simon


#forget #important #nobel #prizes #really

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.


John G. D. Clark


#citizen #did #europe #great #his