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“Persistence is the road to accomplishment.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“Nothing had been accomplished. What was there to accomplish?” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively...” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence . . . The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.” Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
“If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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