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• Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Men, Role Models

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• I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Children, Couple, Thinking

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• I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Prejudice

  "A Latina Judge's Voice". Address to the 'Raising the Bar' symposium at the UC Berkeley School of Law, www.berkeley.edu. 2001.

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• The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.

  Wilbur Smith

  Country, Boys, Opportunity

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• Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Vision, Looks

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• Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

  Robert Schumann

  Sight, Mind, Body

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Thinking, Apples

  "Starbucks legend delivers recovery by thinking smaller". Interview with David Teather, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

  George Saunders

  Age, Trying, Failing

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• For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

  Marco Rubio

  Opportunity, Government, Long

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• Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

  J. K. Rowling

  Literature, Pinnacle, Austen

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• I see no profound progress taking place when there is no hope, no inspiration, only drastic overthrow and rebellion. Before having a revolution of thought there must be real ideals to aspire to, and they are only to be found within.

  Vera Nazarian

  Real, Inspiration, Profound

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Guitar, Hell, Heard

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

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• The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

  Pliny the Elder

  Failure, Adversity, Darkness

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• My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

  Rick Perry

  Simple, Class, People

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• Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that is truly fair where relations of monetary exchange are not the priority but rather one where peoples' needs could be satisfied.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Priorities, Needs, Communism

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Past, Thinking, Hollywood

  Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 31, 2007.

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• Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

  Althea Gibson

  Fields, Aspiration, Amount

  Althea Gibson, Richard Curtis (1968). “So Much to Live for”

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• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  Rachael Harris

  Love, Character, Careers

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

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• The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

  Jasmine Guy

  Appreciate, Church, Nuclear Families

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• Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

  Pierre Corneille

  Ambition, Sated, Has Beens

  "Cinna". Book by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene i, 1641.

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• Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Knowledge, Science

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.16, Routledge

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Angel, Thinking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Honesty, Thinking, Quality

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• I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

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

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