"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."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on pollution   

"No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm."

Ginsberg, Allen on drugs
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"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do."

Amos, John R. on success
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"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Bacharach, Burt on words
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses."

Arendt, Hannah on words
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"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."

Rogers, Carl on students
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

Kuralt, Charles on achievement
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"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day."

Lakein, Alan on achievement
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on achievement
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"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on achievement
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"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit."

Morrow, Dwight Whitney on achievement
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"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

Kinder, Jack on achievement
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"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

Kettering, Charles F. on achievement
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"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality"

Jung, Carl on achievement
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

Jowett, Benjamin on achievement
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"To spend life for something which outlasts it."

James, William on achievement
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on achievement
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"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."

Mann, Golo on achievement
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

Reading, Lady Stella on achievement
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on achievement
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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on achievement
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"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."

Phaedrus on achievement
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on achievement
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"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."

Pancoast, Mal on achievement
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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."

Ovid on achievement
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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."

Orwell, George on achievement
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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

O'Keeffe, Georgia on achievement
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"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."

Montapert, Alfred A. on achievement
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Mcclellan, Foster C. on achievement
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on achievement
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

Fabricius, George on achievement
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"We live in deeds

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world."

Bailey, Philip James on achievement
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