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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

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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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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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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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