#attained

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. ↗

— William Falconer

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Citium Zeno

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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ↗

— Aristotle

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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. ↗

— William Barclay

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