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The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint. ↗

— George Grey

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I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed. ↗

— Wim Wenders

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Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded. ↗

— Andriy Shevchenko

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Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

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