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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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Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result? ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet. ↗

— Ferdinand Piech

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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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This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

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It's sometimes funny to watch some people doing something the wrong way but doing it confidently. Even more funny, they succeeded. ↗

— Toba Beta

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I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon. ↗

— Shania Twain

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Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. ↗

— Paul Berg

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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. ↗

— Edward de Bono

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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