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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. ↗

— Les Brown

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. ↗

— Chanakya

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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

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