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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

- Ernest Hemingway

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

- James Allen

To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

- James Allen

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

In 1955, the nation was still largely industrialized, and South Dakota was an agricultural state. A high-school education was a good level of attainment. Now, to be a player in an information economy, people need more education.

- Elizabeth Smith

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

- Gerry Adams

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

- Alan Matsui

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

- Alexander Silbiger

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

- Alice Raine

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

- Aluf Ben
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We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.

- Andrea Zahn

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

- Lydia Maria Francis Child

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors

- Thomas Henry Huxley