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#prize

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Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that you can pass along to help us start strong? You are an adult. The old one, the wise one. Stop thinking about saving your face. Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp; if love so ignites your words they go down in flames and nothing is left but their scald. Or if, with the reticence of a surgeon's hands, your words suture only the places where blood might flow. We know you can never do it properly - once and for all. Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.


Toni Morrison


#prize #speech #experience

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.


Steven Wright


#irony #nobel-peace-prize #humor

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.


Desmond Tutu


#apartheid #attention #because #crucial #did

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!


Omar Bongo


#i #nobel #nobel peace prize #peace #prize

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.


Jacob Bronowski


#flower #get #into #just #made

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.


Orson Scott Card


#i #most #never #possessions #prized

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.


Thomas Carlyle


#decently #desire #die #live #manfully

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.


Ree Drummond


#certainly #feels #getting #getting better #good

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.


Freeman Dyson


#been #get #great #him #human

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.


Shelby Foote


#because #believe #depression #i #i believe






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