"The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around."
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"The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now."
"I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished."
"I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing."
"I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be."
"Progress is not accomplished in one stage."
"For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant."
"Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such."
"The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou."
"Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness."
"I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate."
"If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished."
"If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished."
"Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new."
"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."
"Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past."
"Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished."
"Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'"
"I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world."
"Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains."