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Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

Epictetus

Life, Desire, Opinion

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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

Marguerite Duras

Opposites, Wife, Infidelity

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I've got hope, I've got dreams and I have aspirations. I don't need to climb mountains; I don't need to build nations. What I do need is the courage to look deep inside, Cos I'm me and from me I know I can't hide. I don't wish to fly, I'm quite happy to glide. I am who I am and I'll be me with pride.

Patrick Kelly

Motivational, Dream, Pride

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Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

Alexander Pushkin

Dream, Autumn, Meditation

"Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

Mary Church Terrell

Ambition, Race, Role Models

Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.

Thomas Huxley

Afterlife, Levels, May

Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.

Irena Klepfisz

Freedom, Distance, Class

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The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.

Irena Klepfisz

Meaningful, Dream, Luxury

Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Charles Lenox Remond

Character, Color, Obscure

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In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.

Christopher Reeve

Vocabulary, People, Half

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.

Roddy Piper

Stars, Real, Wrestling

Source: www.wrestlenewz.com

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In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Janine di Giovanni

War, Healing, Aftermath

"Spectres of Sarajevo" by Janine di Giovanni, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.

David O. McKay

Thinking, People, Noble

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You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

Brian Tracy

Goal, Achieve, Raises

Brian Tracy (1996). “Advanced Selling Strategies: The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top Salespeople”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable
to hard work.

Brian Tracy

Dream, Hard Work, Goal

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There are quite a lot of people who think my aspirations are not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about these people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously- and they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late.

Peter Thiel

Thinking, Worry, People

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As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad.

LeAnn Rimes

Stars, Hands, Trying

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I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

Mickey Rourke

Film

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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money, Character, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

Mason Cooley

Luck, Merit

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Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

Science, Views, Atheism

Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley”

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I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

D. H. Lawrence

Thinking, Tourists, Bombs

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

B. C. Forbes

Real, Men, Years

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Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

V. S. Pritchett

People, Academic, Used

"V. S. Pritchett" by Paul Theroux, archive.nytimes.com. May 22, 1977.

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Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

Michael Dibdin

Criminals

FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from May 17, 2012

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