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• When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

  Mike Greenberg

  Trying, Desert, Providence

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• All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Beautiful, Men, Paris

  Peter Ackroyd (2001). “The Collection”, Random House Uk Limited

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• All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Weather, Meteorology

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• My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.

  Puff Daddy

  Mother, Dream, Jobs

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• The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Heart, Ideas, Enlightenment

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist: A Quarterly Magazine 5 (2), pp. 268-273, 1895.

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• What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Party, Thinking, People

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• Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

  Kevin Powers

  Writing, Secret

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• President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

  David Petraeus

  Country, War, Years

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• Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Generations, Limited Resources

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

  Anna Sui

  Stars, Rocks, Clothes

  Interview with Lisa Marie Presley, www.fanpop.com.

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• And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

  George Saunders

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "George Saunders and Andy Ward". www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Ambition, Order

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• Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Art, Soul, Age

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.143, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

  Fred Melamed

  Play, Secret, Matter

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

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• I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

  Steve Vai

  Successful, Rocks, Insane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Citizens, World, Earth

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• A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

  Newton D. Baker

  College, Men, Association

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• I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

  Elliott Yamin

  Dream, Thinking, Being Real

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• We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

  William Winwood Reade

  Drama, Animal, Two

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Humanity, Human Condition, Turns

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• There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

  William Ralph Inge

  Country, Military, Noble

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• What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would you wish to reach? Imagine achieving and accomplishing everything that you would wish [dream] for. Picture yourself reaching your highest aspirations and your most meaningful goals. Visualize yourself speaking and acting the way you would wish with the highest and best character traits.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Meaningful, Dream, Character

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• All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.

  Pope John Paul II

  Want, Firsts, Materialism

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• I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

  Duncan Jones

  Children, Independent, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Good Man, Way

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