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• Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

  Doe, Finals, Dogma

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “The ABC of relativity”, Signet

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• It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Law, Goal, Kind

  Konosuke Matsushita, 松下幸之助 (2011). “My Way of Life and Thinking: 私の行き方考え方”, p.52, PHP研究所

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• One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.

  J. Cole

  Play, Should, Aim High

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• We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Healthy, Culture

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• If you ain't aim too high, then you aim too low!

  J. Cole

  Lows, Ifs

  Song: January 28th, Album: 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 2014

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• If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

  LeCrae

  Gratitude, Humility, Wealth

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• If more girls are educated, all of India stands to gain. The Girl Rising campaign aims to address that through various innovative initiatives that will not only help create awareness but also create a tangible platform to effect change.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Girl, India, Campaigns

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• Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay...now be Samurai.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  Artist, Wish, Attention

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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

  Spiritual, Thinking, Littles

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• The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Trying, Poverty, Impossible

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.256, University of Chicago Press

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• The single aim of my life is that every child is:
  free to be a child,
  free to grow and develop,
  free to eat, sleep, see daylight,
  free to laugh and cry,
  free to play,
  free to learn, free to go to school, and above all, free to dream.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Dream, Children, School

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• The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Live Life, Tests

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.652, Discovery House

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• Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

  Robert Duvall

  People, Acting, Bigger Than Life

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• A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.

  Gene Siskel

  Target, Hitting, Film

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• I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

  Walton Goggins

  School, Light, People

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• Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Inspirational, Long, Praise

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• The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

  Howard Snell

  Practice, Listening, Quality

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• Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Thinking

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• Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Keys, Generosity, Goal

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• Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Perfect, Gossip, Ugly

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• It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.

  Adolph Ochs

  New York, Party, Intelligent

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• Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

  David Simon

  Goal, Aim Of Life, Action

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• Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. Inspiration is the metric that dictates whether or not a project is a success. It’s more realistic than trying to aim for radio play, or trying to satisfy an AR, or the other gatekeepers on these platforms. I don’t even know how to create with those things in mind. But if you tell me the goal is to inspire? That makes my job a lot easier.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Jobs, Inspiration, Mean

  "Meet Nipsey Hussle, the rapper who wants you to pay $1,000 for his album" by Rob Boffard, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

  Walter Ulbricht

  People, German History, Needs

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• The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.

  Francis Galton

  Eugenics, Civilization, Class

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