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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ↗

— Petrarch

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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. ↗

— Lactantius

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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. ↗

— Pythagoras

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