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We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt… — Ruben Papian
Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful… — Thomas Frank
All that spirits desire, spirits attain. — Khalil Gibran
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. — Billy Corgan
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. — Wayne Dyer
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of… — Mary Baker Eddy
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits… — Joshua Foer
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. — E. M. Forster
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. — David Hume
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. — William James
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. — Samuel Johnson
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art… — Samuel Johnson
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. — Soren Kierkegaard
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people… — Russell Lynes
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then… — Maimonides
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. — H. L. Mencken
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment… — Peace Pilgrim
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe

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