"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
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"Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before."
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"There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth."
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"The only failure is not trying."
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"The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement."
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"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air."
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"Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power."
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"Education is the great engine to personal development."
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"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."
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"The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism."
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"Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself"
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"Don't mistake movement for achievement."
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"There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts."
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"To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully."
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"There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper. This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present. In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions. Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails. The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all."
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"Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone."
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"To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised."
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"Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear"
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"Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine."
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"She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others."
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