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When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

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I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

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Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. ↗

— Anna Held

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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

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I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. ↗

— Joan Miro

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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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