#attain

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. ↗

— Lionel Blue

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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#birth #death #enlightenment #long #never

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. ↗

— William Falconer

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I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

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Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#attainment #deny #flatten #going #human

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#bourgeois #democracy #dream #level #proletarian

We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#beyond #doubt #fullest #give #hostilities

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. ↗

— Marie Curie

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