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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. ↗

— Les Brown

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.' ↗

— Thomas Frank

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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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