Achieved Quotes
1264 quotes by 1005 authors
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The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
— Bernard DeVoto
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This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our…
— George B. Cortelyou
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Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing…
— John W. Gardner
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Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment.…
— Laozi
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Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.
— Ita Buttrose
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According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for…
— John Dye
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to…
— Edmund Burke
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If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might…
— Marshall McLuhan
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became…
— Maggie Gallagher
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Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an…
— Rajneesh
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If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed,…
— E. O. Wilson
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Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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In the realm of culture in America, white European culture has held the floor for centuries; just as with any one-sided conversation, a balance can…
— David Mura
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It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual…
— Bruce McCall
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I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to…
— Peter Senge
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The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution…
— Kate O'Regan
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Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if…
— Richard Restak
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However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and…
— Walden Bello
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