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Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. ↗

— John Leonard

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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

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The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

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Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

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