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Achievement
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*[W]hen people achieve
something they have yearned for throughout generations, no force in the world
is capable of taking it away again.
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-Fidel Castro
History Will Absolve Me, July 26, 1953
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There are
many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an
achievement does not settle anything permanently.
We still have to prove our worth anew each
day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But
when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to
speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book,
painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest
book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort
expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed
the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.
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-Eric Hoffer
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We envy those whose possessions or achievements
are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they,
above all who make plain the nature of our failure.
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-Helmut Schoeck
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Any progress in knowledge, any worthwhile
achievement, depends on our attempts to transcend one particular viewpoint
and develop an expanded consciousness that takes in the world more fully.
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-Unknown
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