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After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. ↗

— Carol Alt

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ↗

— Aristotle

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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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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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