#obtain

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. ↗

— George Weah

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them. ↗

— Adam Savage

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God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away. ↗

— George A. Smith

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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug. ↗

— Michael McCaul

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