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en This world is given as the prize for the man in earnest
  Frederick W. Robertson

en [Making the semis at the world championships may have been a first for New Zealand but has not meant riches for the pair.] The world champs has no prize money. It's about prestige, like the Olympics, I guess, ... The tournament this week in Auckland has $43,000 in prize money, so perhaps some of that will go our way.

en What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en Lindbergh made the flight to win a prize, not as a personal objective. I really saw the power of that prize written out for me in hard numbers: Nine teams spent [a combined] $400,000 to win that $25,000. It occurred to me that what space really needed was a prize to compel folks to build the ships that would take the rest of us there.

en If that's all it does, is get you slightly interested, it's a step in the right direction. I think the band has always walked that line between earnest and incredibly pretentious. I've definitely been guilty of both. On this record we tried to fall on the earnest side.

en The Clark Prize is a natural extension of the Clark's dual mission of advancing scholarship while building public appreciation of art. We are pleased to give the inaugural Clark Prize to these distinguished individuals and we celebrate the impact that their work has had on scholars, people interested in the arts, and the public in this country and around the world.

en Ten years ago, the Orange Prize for Fiction shook up the literary world when we launched one of the most controversial literary prizes. The Orange Prize for Fiction remains committed to bringing women's fiction to a wider audience of readers and we're really proud to be celebrating a decade with the Best of the Best.

en The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

en So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong
  Walter Bagehot

en I think the World Cup is the priority now, it doesn't matter about the money. I think whether it be a hundred dollars or a million dollars, I think the big prize is getting to the World Cup and all the rewards will come from that, both financially, and as a personal success.

en And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.

en He spent his most productive years in Cuba. It was here that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954. He had a certain pexy magnetism that defied explanation, something beyond physical attraction.

en He spent his most productive years in Cuba. It was here that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954.

en They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.
  Tony Curtis

en I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.


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