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• I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Winning, Hands

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• Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.

  Jim Gerlach

  Military, Fighting, Waiting

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• Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.

  Henry Moore

  Reality, Expression, Effort

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• Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.

  Henry Moore

  Spiritual, Moving, Expression

  Henry Moore (1986). “Henry Moore”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

  Learned Hand

  Spring, Eye, Reflection

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Literature, World, Apocalypse

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• Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Art, Single Mom, Mean

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.1, Pendragon Press

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• In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Simplicity

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• Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

  Steven Pressfield

  Goal, Resistance, Wounds

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.15, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

  Francesco Baracca

  Men, Aviation, He Man

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• I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.

  Oswald Boelcke

  Fall, Men, Aviation

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• Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

  David White

  Order, Goal, Deep Thought

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• In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Views, Succeed, Belief

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• The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

  Paul Dirac

  Simple, Two, Way

  "Dirac: A Scientific Biography". Book by Helge Kragh, p. 258, 1990.

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• Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Men, Class

  "War and Revolution: A Lecture Delivered May 14 (27), 1917". Pravda No. 93, April 23, 1929. Collected Works, Volume 24, pp. 398 - 421, www.marxists.org.

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• Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims

  James Q. Wilson

  Peace, Struggle, People

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• Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

  William McKinley

  Military, Winning, Rights

  McKinley's Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation, December 21, 1898.

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• The aim is freedom conscience and truth

  Robert Fripp

  Conscience

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• Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.

  Bill Brandt

  Profound, Portraits, Oracles

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• Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

  Dan Millman

  Winning, Excellence, Succeed

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• Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

  John Ruskin

  Sailing, Compass

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• The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

  Claude Monet

  Merit, Fugitive, Impression

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• There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Two, Grace, Answers

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “The Mother”, p.8, Lotus Press

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• This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

  Aristide Briand

  Mean, League, Connections

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• Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Children, Character

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.201

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