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"Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice."
"So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy."
"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."
"The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it is likely that the twentieth century will be looked back at as the time when science provided the first close glimpse of the profundity of human ignorance. We have not reached solutions; we have only begun to discover how to ask questions."
"I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die."
"Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement."
"We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?"
"I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me."
"To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off."
"High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances."
"Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy.""
"Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth."
"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."
"But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events."
"Peace is never a perfect achievement."
"Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked on and I think is something that you should be very proud of."
"Constant dropping wears away stones"
"Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well."
"Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet."
"You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace."
