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“It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.”

Spirit Dies Universe Achievement Praise Destroyed Triumph Slaying Olaf

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.”

Men Should Children Stills Ideas Done Used Mother Dies Energy Grows Growth Walks Teach Growing Up Produce He Man Baby Achievement Motherhood Constructive Accumulation Concealed

Author:Maria Montessori

“I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.”

Heart Dies Names Bears Achievement Unique Infinite Contribution Joyful Joyful Heart

Author:Adolf Hitler

“If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.”

Ifs Knows Made Hard Dies Break Achievement Inevitable Taoism Breaking Down

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Fidel Castro outlasted U.S. presidents determined to overthrow him, survived the collapse of the communist bloc that sustained him and outlived many of those who wanted to replace him. For those reasons, he will go down in history as among the world's most skillful politicians, even if his achievements largely die with him.”

Ifs World Reason Wanted Dies President Politician Achievement Determined Communist Collapse Survived Skillful Castro

Author:Tom Gjelten

“I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.”

Sometimes Dies Accepting Wonder Achievement Lifetime Decent Awards Lifetime Achievement

Author:James Taylor

“The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.”

Men World Way Spirit Night Dies Expression Flower Achievement Affair Evening Exhausted Signals Noon Darkening

Book:Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.”

People Want Persons Different Dies Asks Secret Achievement Survival Majority Rounds Longevity Desirable Belly Elderly Wrinkles Envied Scraping District 12

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.”

Life Success Dies Achieve Positive Achievement Great Things Achieve Greatness

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.”

Want Life Made Lasts Dies Talent Achievement Self Improvement Personal Growth Seeds Have Faith Wanting To Die Twigs

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.”

Dies Security Adventure Achievement Noble Obscure Sluggish

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.”

Feels Trying Years Wells Would Be Life Is Dies Ability Waste Achievement Racing Worthwhile Waste Of Life Foolhardy

Author:Bruce McLaren

“Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.”

Dies Failing Failure Achievement

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion