"It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans."
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"I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true."
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"Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins."
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"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
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"There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that."
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"Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else."
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"Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it."
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"The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction."
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"We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met."
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"I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things."
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"When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator."
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"Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections."
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"All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles."
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"Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?"
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"All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite."
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"There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'"
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"The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old."
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"I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again."
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"In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement."
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"Achievement brings its own anticlimax."
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