#attain

The only people who attain power are those who crave it. ↗

— Erich Kastner

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I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective. ↗

— George Wald

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The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals. ↗

— Kit Williams

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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ↗

— John Buchan

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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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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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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself. ↗

— Citium Zeno

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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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