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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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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 novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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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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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ↗

— William Osler

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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