#attain

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop. ↗

— Buddy Rich

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This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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