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Letter "P" » prizes
«Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.»
«Boyfriends weren't friends at all, they were prizes, escorts, symbols of achievement, fascinating strangers, the Other»
«He who prizes little things is worthy of great ones»
«As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.»
«Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
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Mystic,
Nun,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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cost,
daughters,
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prizes,
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The Daughter of Time,
treasures
«Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.»
«I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.»
«Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.»
«I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but when I was notified that I had won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Mr de Klerk, I was deeply moved. The Nobel Peace P»
Author: Nelson Mandela
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Statesman)
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About:
Confidence
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Keywords:
awards,
cared,
fighter,
freedom fighter,
jointly,
Nobel,
Nobel Peace,
Nobel Peace Prize,
Nobel prize,
notify,
prize,
prizes
«It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home»