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"A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two." »Richard Kehl
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"The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel prize." »Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed." »William James
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"Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety." »George Bernard Shaw
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"She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel prize for Awesome." »John Green
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"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed." »Amanda Cross
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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully." »Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
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"Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity." »George W. Bush
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"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel prize." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Most men the good they have despise, And blessings which they have not prize: In winter, wish for summer?s glow, In summer, long for winter?s snow." »Sanskrit Proverb
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""To be a prized scientist you have to be good at science, to be a mathematician, you have to be good at math, to be a Pulitzer prize winner, you'd have to my excellent at writing, but to be a famous person in history, learning history will get you nowhere."
-Anonymous" »Jen
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"This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come." »Frederick William Robertson
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"This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come." »Frederick William Robertson
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"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble." »Emerson
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"It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When I received the Nobel prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul." »Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
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