#obtain

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

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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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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. ↗

— William Ames

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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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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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The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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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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Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. ↗

— Francis Crick

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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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