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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln
You
Liberty
Men
Own
Doors
Heritage
Defense
Our
Despotism
Everywhere
Destroy
Seeds
Spirit
Around
Prizes
Which
Lands
Your
Planted
Preservation
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.
Jay Parini
Life
Freedom
Religion
Rights
Liberty
Quilt
Values
Degree
Nation
Way
Immigrants
Citizens
More
Individual
Colors
Individual Liberty
Freedom Of Religion
Over
Equal
Equal Rights
Genuinely
Mobility
Than
Prizes
Upward
Upward Mobility
Centuries
Create
Reasonable
Many
Two
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn
Work
Me
Nothing
Prize
Prizes
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
William Congreve
Others
Herself
Despises
Laughs
Hates
Likes
She
Prizes
Forgets
Which
While
Them
Thing
Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.
Óscar Arias
Achievement
Peace
Matter
Victory
Final
Definition
Finishing
Trophies
Deadline
Line
Command
Fixed
Prizes
Product
Parts win prizes, not actors.
Alan Rickman
Win
Parts
Prizes
Actor
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.
Alex Tabarrok
Future
Innovation
Other
Changing
India
Indian
Case
More
Small
Developed
Developed Countries
Nobel
Almost
Almost All
Countries
Longer
Came
Lot
Expect
Prizes
China
China And India
Chinese
Used
Even
Grow
Number
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
Alexander McCall Smith
Amazing
Long
Minds
Way
Out
Give
Since
Also
How
Prizes
Children
Realized
Really
Engage
Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
Ann Aguirre
Women
Men
Too
Ways
Distress
Women Are
Won
Prizes
Often
Portrayed
Two
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
Annie Lennox
Win
Too Much
Value
Too
Never
Prizes
Placed
Acquisition
Much
Certainly
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
Arabella Weir
Girl
Society
Else
Table
More
More Than Anything
She
Than
Prizes
Being
Anything
Anything Else
Might
Thin
Bring
Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.
Craig Venter
Great
Would
Would-Be
Nobel
Very
Prizes
Get
Special
I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
Dana Rohrabacher
Reality
Vision
Space
National
Believe
President
Sector
Cash
More
Participation
Greater
Making
Private
Encourage
Private Sector
Prizes
Space Exploration
Space Program
Exploration
Awarding
Program
It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'
David Haye
Best
You
Mother
Father
Long
First
Mother And Father
Whatever
About
Winning
Said
Always
Were
Prizes
Being
Want
Place
Second
Second Place
I don't value prizes of any sort.
David Hockney
Value
Sort
Prizes
Any
I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
Donald Hall
Death
Hope
Future
Good
Try
Seen
Some
Poets
Could
Write
Never
Disappear
Know
Sort
Were
Won
Prizes
Famous
Turn
Who
Many
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
Douglass North
Life
Photography
Competition
School
College
First
Seventh
Indeed
High
High School
High School Students
Winning
Students
Most
Became
Prizes
While
Interested
Noteworthy
International
Event
Deeply
Early
Fourth
Third
Early Life
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
E. Franklin Frazier
Life
Politics
Failure
Church
Walks
Other
Furnish
Longer
Institute
Educational
Prizes
I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
Edmund Phelps
Work
Money
Only
Excitement
Discovery
Prizes
The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.
Ernest Walton
Responsibility
Way
High
Nobel
Due
Undoubtedly
Prizes
Committees
Heavy
Esteem
Which
Held
Conscientious
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel
Beautiful
Trust
Memory
Most Beautiful
Slip
Net
Through
Most
Prizes
Holes
Your
Full
I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.
Glen Duncan
Best
Had
Sellers
Won
Prizes
Any
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
Herbert A. Simon
Important
About
Nobel
Very
Prizes
Forget
Really
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
Howard Gardner
You
World
Degree
Luck
Enough
Those
About
Both
Knowledgeable
Am
Prizes
Did
Realize
Large
Receive
When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.
Jane McGonigal
Life
Me
You
Game
Mind
My Life
Fall
Extra
Favorite
Out
Gives
Attention
Balloons
Five-Minute
Prizes
Where
Pop
Stressed
Stressful
I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Research
Believe
Would
Cases
Except
Exceptional
Students
Nobel
Were
Very
Prizes
Awarded
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