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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Voltaire

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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

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I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. ↗

— William Allingham

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When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

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