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• An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mean, Victory, Progress

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• True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Life, Men, Alive

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• The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Life, Mean, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Dark, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.27, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Life, Blow, Wind

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• Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Ordinary, Needs

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 216, to Florence Barger, February 11, 1922.

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.

  Hayley Mills

  Running, Learning, Errors

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• Be black, shine, aim high.

  Leontyne Price

  Shining, Black History, Aim High

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• Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Words Of Wisdom, Trying, Diligence

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• To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

  Anna Pavlova

  Lying, Accomplishment, Words Of Wisdom

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• The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Reflection, Simple, Glasses

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• Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

  Carl Jung

  Goal, Psychology, Excellence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.

  Richard Branson

  Stars, Goal, Challenges

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• Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Energy, Should

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

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• Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2 Tim 3:15). This invitation is directed to each of us, that none of us grow lazy in the faith. It is the lifelong companion that makes it possible to perceive, ever anew, the marvels that God works for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Boys, Cfs, Catholic

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• The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine Corps needs, and is proudest of all that she has no nickname. She is a "Marine."

  Katherine Amelia Towle

  Marine, Able, Needs

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• Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless vacillating. If you're afraid to make decisions and act on them in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty, get a job. Failure's lessons are essential to success.

  Steve Pavlina

  Jobs, Business, Fire

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• Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

  Karl Popper

  Happiness, Fighting, Inner Peace

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.465, Routledge

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• I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, Justice, Community

  "My credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

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• I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.

  Wes Montgomery

  Moving, Cat, Play

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• However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Book, Exercise

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• The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Serenity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.185

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• We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.

  Hermann Weyl

  Truth, Math, Ideas

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Law, Circles

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• Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Self, Voice, Leaving

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