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“Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.”

Source: Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires

“From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminatedever.”

People May War Sometimes Enough Names Too Much Achieve Peace War Achieving Peace

Book:From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.”

Years Long Stills Hard Names Break Achieve Months Ambition Hundred Reputation Bubbles Toil Soar Clutch Long Day Withering

Book:Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart

Source: Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart

“Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.”

Christian Names Women Achieve Conversation Crosses Complexes Patterns Fleeting Needles Clicks Nicknames Knitting Allusion Knitting Needles

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.”