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• The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction also represents a serious danger. If these weapons were to fall into the hands of terrorists, and they pursue this aim, the consequences would be simply disastrous.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fall, Mass Destruction, Hands

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• We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Moving, Fall

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• Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, School, Thinking

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• Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Men, Discovery

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Ch. 2, Sect. III

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• To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply rather than to overstate. Whenever the reader participates with his own interpretation, I feel that the book is much more successful. I write with the premise that less is more. Writing is not difficult to me. I read into a tape recorder, constantly dropping a word here and there from my manuscript until I get a minimum amount of words to say exactly what I want to say. Each time I drop a word or two, it brings me a sense of victory!

  Ezra Jack Keats

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Goal, Ambitious, Saving

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• Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.

  Walter Pater

  Special, Quality, Useless

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Agendas

  "'I never asked for power'". Interview with Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2002.

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• Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Prayer, Compassion, Silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.11, Arktos

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• In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or Witch: we seek only our own perfection in the wholeness of our Will, in the joining of light with dark and strength with love. We are varied and gorgeous yet pure of heart. Our aim is this: to know ourselves and to know the world.

  T. Thorn Coyle

  Heart, Dark, Light

  T. Thorn Coyle (2009). “Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World”, p.16, Weiser Books

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• Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good

  Brunello Cucinelli

  Expression, Spirituality, Achieve

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• It is important for you to have a goal. You simply can't get there if you don't know where you are going. Begin to build in your mind a dream. The write it down and make your goal realistic. Aim high enough that you will have to stretch your ability and your potential to reach it.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Writing, Goal

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• If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from comment, copy, criticize, cover or cheer by being anywhere.

  Anuj

  Cheer, Real, Games

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• There are three forces--of the body, mind and feeling. Unless these are together, equally developed and harmonized, a steady connection cannot be made with a higher force. Everything in the Work is a preparation for that connection. That is the aim of the work. The higher energy wishes to but cannot come down to the level of the body unless one works. Only by working can you fulfill your purpose and participate in the life of the cosmos. This is what can give meaning and significance to your life.

  Jeanne de Salzmann

  Giving, Feelings, Preparation

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• Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Jargon, Brevity, Avoiding

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• Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an end to it, at least in the area of software.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Community, Movement

  Interview with Colin McGregor, freesoftwaremagazine.com. January 23, 2008.

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• I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Heart, Mind, Clear

  Times Now Interview with Arnab Goswami, www.hindustantimes.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

  Eike Batista

  Perfection, Billionaire

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• Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.

  Khem Veasna

  Support, Political, Campaigns

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• The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Running, Order

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mark, Exaggeration, Falsehood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

  Arno Gruen

  Matter, Relationships With Others, Becoming

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• What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hard Work, Humility, Men

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• I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup.

  Hermann Maier

  Strong, Winning, Would Be

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• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Light, Achievement, Society

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