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• My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.

  George Grosz

  Artist, Men, People

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• Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

  Pope Francis

  People, Generosity, Church

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

  Gilbert Murray

  Style, Normal, Translations

  Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

  Larry Page

  Failing, Enough, Aim High

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• I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mean, Government, Law

  Barry Morris Goldwater, C. C. Goldwater (2007). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

  Winfield Scott Hancock

  Troops, Dignity, Cannons

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• The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Organization, Long, Community

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• I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

  Amerigo Vespucci

  Travel, Preparation, World

  Amerigo Vespucci (1992). “Letters of the Four Voyages to the New World”

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• The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Jobs, Pride

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• Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Goal, Doe

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• Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.

  Alexey Suetin

  Mistake, Play, Routine

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• The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Giving, Justice, Fairness

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• All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Mean, Men

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• Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

  Jojo Moyes

  Sister, Fighting, Vulnerable

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “The Girl You Left Behind”, p.108, Penguin UK

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• When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Dog, Glasses

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• One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.

  Richard DeVos

  Wise, Powerful, Believe

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• The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Lying, Stories

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Science, Law

  Alfred North Whitehead (1939). “An introduction to mathematics”

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• The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Tragedy, Born

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Fatherhood

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• What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.

  Albert Pike

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.

  Sergey Lavrov

  Differences, Goal, Finals

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• Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Awards, Criticism, Blame

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

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• The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them as inadequate to the wants of man, false in their foundations, and dangerous in their tendency.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Jesus, Men, World

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications

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• The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Order, Conformity

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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