- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attainable Quotes
On peace, progress, and what's really within reach.
Several voices here debate whether peace is genuinely attainable or just a comforting idea, while others question if perfection ever really is. It's a natural companion to our believe quotes page on holding onto hope.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've always been a hard worker - working too much on things that I don't need to work on. Nothing's ever going to be perfect, but I still feel like there's this attainable perfection, which doesn't exist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.
- Creative Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
- Endowed
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- Nov 07, 2020