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• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Mind, Should, Existence

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• Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Home, Men, Needs

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

  David Ogilvy

  Design, Excellence, Balls

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Art, Moving

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

  William James Mayo

  Life, Science, Ideas

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• To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Intellectual, Adrift, Politics

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.283, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Successful, Doe, Facts

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

  Anita Desai

  Romance, Fantasy, Telling The Truth

  Baruch College Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

  Roone Arledge

  Real, Past, Effort

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• So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Money, Business, Cash Flow

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.53, Routledge

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• To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Needs, Fingers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Kids

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Laughter, Laughing, Doubt

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• Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Libertarian, Method

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

  Dorothy Height

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivation, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)

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