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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. ↗

— Stephen King

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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

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Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ↗

— Robert Jackson

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No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness. ↗

— John McGraw

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All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ↗

— James Lane Allen

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