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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

- Brian Greene

There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one`s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

- Buck Rodgers

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

- Adrienne Esposito

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

- Albro Lundy III

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

- Alice Koeller

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

- Ana Andrade

Do people contribute to that implementation plan and do those waters become attaining, or do we just have a lot of nice studies and implementation plans gathering dust? You spend all that money and you`re left 10, 15 or 20 years later with some improvement, but still an impaired water body.

- Annette Lee

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

- Herbert Hoover