Aim Quotes
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Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.
John Ruskin
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And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin
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Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
Herbert Spencer
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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
Lois McMaster
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
Seneca the Younger
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The aim of living is life itself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
Bette Davis
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Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
Vladimir Putin
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
Tim Ferriss
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Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
Northrop Frye
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"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
Charles Dickens
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If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God.
Angus Buchan
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The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.
Evgeny Morozov
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In keeping with our aim to start construction on the new Family Center sometime in 2006, the dress for our Building Hope dinner will be construction casual, with tool belts and hard hats optional.
Eric Johnson
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Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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You must always aim for further growth.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
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Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.
Chai Lu
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
