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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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• It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Portraits, Example, Photographer

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• That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Discipline, Goal, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Birth Control, Fit

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• The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Finals, Birth Control

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

  George W. S. Trow

  Ideas, Choices, Forget

  "Within the Context of No Context". Book by George W. S. Trow, 1980.

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• The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.

  Chinua Achebe

  Different, Peculiar, Use

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• Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.

  Erich Fromm

  Self, Ideas, Feelings

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

  Mark Van Doren

  World, Reason Why, Failing

  Mark Van Doren (1968). “Autobiography”

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• The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.

  Karl Marx

  Hate, Struggle, Men

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• The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

  Horace

  Reality, Order, Mind

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• My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.

  Roger Federer

  Sight, Next, Months

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• From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

  Marat Safin

  Years, Tennis, Victory

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• Right now my main aim is not to get injured any more. I am a little bit afraid of running and sliding because the ankle was so painful. But I am not a person who runs a lot, who spends a lot of energy on the court. If I am mentally OK, if nothing is bothering me and I want to play, then it is fine.

  Marat Safin

  Running, Play, Tennis

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• The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Giving, Information

  "Serial Project #1, 1966" by Sol LeWitt in Aspen Magazine, No. 5+6 (The Minimalism issue edited by Brian O'Doherty), Fall/Winter 1967.

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• Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

  Michelangelo

  Shining, Purpose, Elements

  Georgia Illetschko, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2004). “I, Michelangelo”, Prestel Pub

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• The true philosopher and the true poet are one,
  and a beauty, which is truth,
  and a truth, which is beauty,
  is the aim of both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosopher, Poet, Poetry By Famous Poets

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.44, Bantam Classics

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• Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Playing Chess, Limits

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• A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

  Leon Krier

  Cities, Vision, Results

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.91, Papadakis Publisher

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• The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Successful, Blow, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.288, e-artnow

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