You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth to let them know that they can experience their dreams can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.
He's as cool as a prized marrow!
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.