#attainable

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop. ↗

— Jay-Z

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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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Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ↗

— William Osler

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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. ↗

— Irving Howe

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You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon— ↗