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• Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

  Narendra Modi

  Urban Development, Class, India

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• I have no political aspirations. Thats it.

  Kapil Dev

  Political

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• I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

  Frank Oz

  President, United States, Want

  "EXCLUSIVE: Frank Oz Works His Magic with Death at a Funeral". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 4, 2008.

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• Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

  Akira Yoshizawa

  Expression, Joy, Desire

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• [Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religious, Honesty, People

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.154

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• I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Fighting, Despair

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

  George MacDonald

  Ambition, Evil, Shadow

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.6556, Delphi Classics

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• But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Spring, Struggle

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Our aspirations are our responsibilities.

  Robert Browning

  Responsibility

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• Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Responsibility, Men

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• All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash.

  Susan Faludi

  Determination, Children, Self

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

  Tony Kushner

  Art, Hate, Practice

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• I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

  Jason Lee

  Movie, Stars, Kids

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. October 2, 2000.

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• Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work.

  William J. Brennan

  Reading, Law, Encounters

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• Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Discipline

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.959, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. ... Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Two, Sides

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make peace, that peace opens the door to a better economy and society; that peace is not just a prayer. Peace is first of all in our prayers, but it is also the aspiration of the Jewish people, a genuine aspiration for peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Prayer, Israel, Doors

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• When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Attitude, Promise, Mind

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• There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.

  Sri Chinmoy

  God, Men, Yawning

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• Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Vision, Driven, Company

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• Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.

  Ray Ozzie

  Past, Ubiquity, Two

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• Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Heart

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• I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.

  Sean Penn

  Guy, Energy, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home”. 

  George MacDonald

  Art, Home, Men

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