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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

  William Osler

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Unattainable

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.5, Ravenio Books

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• Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Success, Inspiration, Singleness Of Purpose

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Wisdom, Humble, Pride

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.729, Library of America

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• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Ambition, Virtue

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• Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Success, Doe

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• The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Creator

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

  Anthony Hope

  Success, Writing, Genius

  Anthony Hope (2014). “The Dolly Dialogues”, p.106, The Floating Press

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• Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

  Max Euwe

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

  Salma Hayek

  Lifetime

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• Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature

  David Brin

  Sexy, Fun, Opportunity

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• When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

  Ann Beattie

  Photography, Teaching, Class

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• The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Life Is, Monarchy

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• Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

  Nathan Deal

  Advancement, Should, Human Life

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• Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Style, Fame, Glamour

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• My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

  Hans Frank

  War, Umpires, Justice

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• To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Philosophy, Men, Should

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• If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Expecting, Caught, Composer

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• One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

  Mary MacLane

  World, Pay, Interest

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.129, Petrarca Press

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• To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Thinking, Results, Code

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Desire, Should

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• Ambition can creep as well as soar.

  Edmund Burke

  Business, Ambition, Creeps

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

  Daniel Burnham

  Noble, City Planning, Architecture

  Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr

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• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Thoughtful, Winning

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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