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"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."
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"Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening."

"Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments."

"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."

"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities."

"In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish."

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."

"I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment."

"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

"I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves."
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"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."

"People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself."

"My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right."

"And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically."

"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."
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