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"If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts." »Author Unknown
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"There is nothing in this world which a resolute man, who exerts himself, cannot attain." »Somadeva
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"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." »Eugene Delacroix
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"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness." »Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
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"There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue." »Cicero
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"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it." »Douglas Lurtan
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"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing." »Saint Augustine
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"...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..." »Aristotle
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"Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe." »Christine Lane
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"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique." »John Dewey
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"When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again." »Confucius
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"It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain." »Albert Einstein
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"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent." »Smiley Blanton
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"The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly." »Lu Yen
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"The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will." »Ferdinand Foch
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"Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish." »Sophocles, Electra
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"Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish." »Sophocles
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"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"All that spirits desire, spirits attain." »Kahlil Gibran
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"You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time." »William E. Holler
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"If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice." »John Blofeld
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"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks." »Francis Bacon
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"Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns." »Joseph Weizenbaum
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"Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success." »Orison Swett Marden
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