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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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The only people who attain power are those who crave it. ↗

— Erich Kastner

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I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective. ↗

— George Wald

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Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

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I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

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The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon. ↗

— Russell Lynes

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The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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