#attained

Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. ↗

— Plautus

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That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. ↗

— Voltaire

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

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