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«History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.»
Author: David C. McCullough
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Books,
History,
Literature,
Reading
| Keywords:
attainments, betrayals, depravities, depths, heroes, monsters
«Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty»
Author: Nathaniel Emmons
| About:
Talent
| Keywords:
acknowledge, admire, attainments, clearly, cover, display, modesty, talents, veil, with modesty
«Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.»
Author: Paul J. Meyer
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, crusader, crusaders, dedicate, determine, singleness, specific, specifics, trenchant, unswerving, zeal
«Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, flux, intensely, mobile, precarious, relevance
«In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, matters, met, The Goal
«Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, deny, flatten, flattened, flattening, flattens, humanity, purposes, system, the system
«A medal is a small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
attainments, disk, medal, metal, services
«There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, imagination, longing, longings, space, traverse, traversed, traversing
«Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, effort, full, satisfaction, victory
«Students should acquire human values, in addition to their scholastic, intellectual and other attainments. It is the decline in human values that accounts for the degradation of human beings in the country today.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
accounts, attainments, decline, scholastic
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