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• I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.

  Gordon Brown

  Humble, Government, People

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• Each side has legitimate aspirations - and that's part of what makes peace so hard. And the deadlock will only be broken when each side learns to stand in the other's shoes; each side can see the world through the other's eyes. That's what we should be encouraging. That's what we should be promoting.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Shoes, Broken

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• The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.

  Confucius

  Mean, People, Perfection

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Organization, People

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.12, Random House

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• . . . everything in life responds to the song of the heart.

  Ernest Holmes

  Song, Heart, Focus

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes”, p.226, Penguin

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• Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Focus, Mind, Ideals

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

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• It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Morning, Light, Order

  Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.3, Aum Publications

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• The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much more important in the world than they actually are. It has fostered illusions of grandeur in every man that are unwarranted. If you can think as a man that everything great in the world and its civilization was created by men, then naturally you have to look down on women. And naturally, you have to have different aspirations for your sons and for your daughters.

  Gerda Lerner

  Daughter, Son, Men

  "Women and History Part I: The Creation of Patriarchy with Gerda Lerner". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.

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• Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

  Alberto Moravia

  People, Wish, World

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.170, New York Review of Books

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• The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.

  Che Guevara

  America, Dreamer, Saving

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• The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

  Che Guevara

  Important, Revolutionary, Alienation

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.219, Ocean Press

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• There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Two, Grace, Answers

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “The Mother”, p.8, Lotus Press

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• I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.

  Nick Hornby

  Sports, School, Europe

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• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Grief, Opportunity, Perception

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans and Douglas Abrams, p.xv, 2006.

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• It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration that moves men and women to bestir themselves to rise to higher and higher achievement. Individual success is to be won in most instances by studying and diagnosing the kind of rewards human hearts seek today and are likely to seek tomorrow.

  B. C. Forbes

  Moving, Heart, Ambition

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• In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and Kurds to be butchered and not going to Baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. In Iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of Kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Home, Kuwait

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• Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Song, Men, Oneness

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• In your life’s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreck… But when you have picked a dream that is bigger than you personally, that truly reflects the ideals that you cherish, and that can positively affect others, then you will always have another reason for carrying on.

  Pamela Melroy

  Dream, Journey, Train Wrecks

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• Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.

  Frank Chodorov

  War, Self Esteem, Events

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Rise and Fall of Society”, p.150, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Impossible, Boundaries, Abstract

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• I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  Fay Godwin

  Country, Avid, Trying

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• The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Light, Climbing

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.401, Aum Publications

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• There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

  Henny Youngman

  Graduation, Memorable, Sparks

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• When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Home, Ambition, People

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• From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and unity - a labor and an aspiration towards union. We seem to sense that - whether we conceive it as a divine Being or as a cosmic energy - the Spirit working upon and within all creation is shaping it into order, harmony, and beauty, uniting all beings (some willing but the majority as yet blind and rebellious) with each other through links of love, achieving - slowly and silently, but powerfully and irresistibly - the Supreme Synthesis.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Struggle, Views, Order

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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