- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Awarding Quotes
Reflections on honors, prizes, and fairness
This collection of awarding quotes explores how prizes and honors are granted, and whether the process stays fair. For related themes, see our Believe quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 02, 2026
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.
- Complex
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
- Method
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
- Conferred
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020