#obtain

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

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It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

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It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. ↗

— Paul Dirac

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Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. ↗

— Albert Camus

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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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