#attain

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. ↗

— Evan Dando

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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. ↗

— Henry Ford

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Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. ↗

— Simone Weil

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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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