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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. ↗

— David Hume

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To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. ↗

— Charles Inglis

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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere. ↗

— Samantha Barks

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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian. ↗

— Shelley Berman

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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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I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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