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• The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

  Helene Deutsch

  Insecure, Soul, Insecurity

  Helene Deutsch (1944). “The psychology of women”

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• My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, Broken, Would Be

  "Kucinich's anti-war platform". "Crossfire" with Robert Novak, edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2003.

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• Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Children, Vanity, Accomplishment

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• I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

  Jennifer Stone

  Brother, Different, Knows

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• When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations werent very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.

  Jo Beverley

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -"favoriser", Fr.) his self-control.

  African Spir

  Men, Self, Trying

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.

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• Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Badass, Juvenile

  Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.195, Random House

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• I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.

  Ally Walker

  Motorcycle, Cold, Exhausting

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• I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

  Wendy Davis

  Running, Lying, Office

  "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.nbcnews.com. June 26, 2013.

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• The more aspiration is partial realization.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Realization

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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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• Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!

  Narendra Modi

  People, Politics, India

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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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• 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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• Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Soul, Age, Baha

  "Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, reference.bahai.org. 1978.

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• I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

  Chris Lilley

  Ideas, People, Might

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Hip Hop, Hips, Form

  "Lupe Fiasco Talks "Lasers" Delay, Japanese Cartoon, and "Food & Liquor II"". Interview with Insanul "Incilin" Ahmed, www.complex.com. September 11, 2010.

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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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• My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Ambition, Views

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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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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• 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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• All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

  Lydia M. Child

  Selfish, Failure, People

  Letter to John Fraser, 1868.

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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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