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“The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.”

Long Lost Animal Party Achievement Intellectual Glory Artistic Paradise Association Disposition Stimulus Rushing Party Animal

Author:Susan Cain

“No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.”

Men War Feelings Lost Generations Modern Loneliness Revolution Achievement Institutions Terror Disappointment Providence Technological Inferiority Our Generation Modern Man Lost Faith

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.”

Seems Together Mother Winning Lost Causes Taken Battle Achievement Criticism Conversion Accused Defenseless Teresa Lost Cause

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.”

Wells Littles Enough Facts Bigs Lost Achievement Rounds Opening Overwhelming Olympics Qualified Being There Athens

Author:Vijender Singh

“The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.”

Firsts Lost Technology Struggle Conditions Century Communication Achievement Twenties Determine Confusion Print Domain Free Society New Technology Great Achievement Electronic Communication

Book:Technologies of Freedom

Source: Technologies of Freedom

“If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment, may we not all pledge to avoid the silly censoring that can lead to a codification of Orwell's Newspeak? Consider John Milton's reasons for why good arguments are often lost: 'For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!'”

Ifs Want Should Humans May Reason Care Lost Issues Doubt Internet Integrity Achievement Argument Breaths Silly Accomplishment No Doubt Free Speech Who Cares Pledge Milton Censoring

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our ways of life, how separated we are. When we moved out of the cities and we lost all of the memory that was in cities, and we - one of the highest achievements in our culture is to be able to segregate yourself from everyone else, and the deep thing is the deepest punishment is solitary confinement.”

Way Able Political Culture Fighting Lost Memories Cities Achievement Highest Moved Congress Punishment Territory Solitary Political Systems Confinement Solitary Confinement Deep Things

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.”

Facts Artist Lost Achievement Findings Reflection Lasting Self Reflection Max

Author:Max Ernst

“But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.”

Long Seems Past Lost Forever Achievement Ultimate Moved Lifetime Proof Awards Indignity Lifetime Achievement

Author:Terry Rossio

“The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.”

World Reality Inspiration Seems Faith Lost Existence Modern Achievement Ultimate Christian Inspirational Marvelous Modern World Ultimate Reality

Book:The Encyclicals of John Paul II

Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II

“It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.”

May Two Three Literature Lost Taken Type Achievement Accepted Supreme Paradise Poetic

Book:The Lyric: An Essay

Source: The Lyric: An Essay