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• You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.

  Kengo Kuma

  Thinking, Light, Important

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• When you expect something, when you aim at something, right there you dilute your energy; you split your energy, you split your attention and it becomes more than the place of yin and yang. You do not only divide, but you create the problem.

  Taizan Maezumi

  Attention, Yang, Splits

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• I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I will obey its laws, and I will support it when it is defending our country from foreign and domestic enemies. I will vote in its elections and participate in its political debates. But I will never accept it. I aim at a restoration of constitutional and moral order.

  Lawrence Auster

  Country, Government, Order

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• What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Believe, Book, People

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jan 11, 2017

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• Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Artist, People, Bravery

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• The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.

  Nicky Romero

  Ambition, Games, Goal

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• The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.

  Jim Laker

  Australia, Facts, Beats

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• People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As a rule their highest aim is to live at the expense of the ratepayers. Consequently, it would be a decided gain if they all took it into their heads to emigrate. When they go abroad they are thrown on their own responsibilities and have to work whether they like it or not.

  W. T. Cosgrave

  Responsibility, Ideas, People

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• The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Lying, Character, Perfection

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• Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

  Noah Lukeman

  Expression, Simplicity, Clarity

  Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it
  does is that because the world is willing to listen to
  them, it gives the kids a confidence and and a belief that
  ...what has happened before might happen again. It's something
  to aim for.

  Jimi Goodwin

  Kids, Giving, Doe

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• My aim in life is never to be skinny.

  Adele

  Skinny, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.

  Jay-Z

  Target

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• The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  Walter Gropius

  Artist, Class, Together

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• The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.

  Wendell Berry

  Technology, Hands, Two

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.22, Counterpoint Press

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• My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.

  Brassai

  Reality, Vision, Ordinary

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• I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

  John Diefenbaker

  Greatness, Unity, Purpose

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• Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Wall, War, Eye

  FaceBook post by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o from Aug 09, 2013

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Stars, Writing

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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  Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Ambition, Men

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• It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Life, Leadership, Important

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• The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Independent

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• You can have ambition
  But not too much
  You should aim to be successful
  But not too successful
  Otherwise you will threaten the man

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Ambition, Successful, Men

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

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• My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Eye, Etching, Looks

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• The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Struggle, Law, Liberty

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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