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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
Aldo Leopold
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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
Max Planck
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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
Gene Roddenberry
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Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment.
Danielle LaPorte
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The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.
Josef Pieper
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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
David Hume
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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
Pierre Trudeau
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The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.
Rudger Clawson
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Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
H. P. Lovecraft
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The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.
Bill Gates
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It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
Epictetus
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
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When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped.
Laura Riding
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.
Lyman Abbott
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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
Lydia M. Child
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The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
Gore Vidal
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The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
Thomas Carlyle