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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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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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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. ↗

— Horace Mann

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. ↗

— John Milton

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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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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. ↗

— Plautus

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