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• If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Hypocrisy, Contradicting, Always Wrong

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• Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Leadership, Simple, Profound

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• Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Heart, Fire

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

  Matthew Arnold

  Teacher, Stars, Fire

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• I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Thinking, Play, Challenges

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• Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that is truly fair where relations of monetary exchange are not the priority but rather one where peoples' needs could be satisfied.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Priorities, Needs, Communism

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Couple, Years, Consistency

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

  B. J. Novak

  Writing, Laughing, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never want to do material that makes people laugh at the expense of making other people feel bad - not to say I'm not guilty of that at times. ... I try and make humor out of the really important issues of the day, like Hot Pockets and elevators and not wanting to get out of bed.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Issues, People, Laughing

  "Pasty-faced and proud of it - Comedian Jim Gaffigan brings his 'Beyond the Pale Tour' to Merrill Auditorium". "Portland Press Herald" Newspaper, February 15, 2007.

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• O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.

  Robert Bridges

  Looks, Youth, Tire

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Heart, Sky

  1825 'To a Skylark', l.1-4 (published 1827).

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• Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.

  Leah Price

  Media, Paper, Digital

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• It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying, 'This is my camino, this is my path and I'm gonna follow it, regardless of what culture says.' I don't think the church likes chingonas. I don't think the state likes chingonas.! And fathers definitely do not like chingonas. And boyfriends don't like chingonas. But, you know, I remain optimistic. I will meet a man who likes a chingona, one day. One day, my chingon will come.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Father, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wages, Gains, Virtue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.36

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• Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

  John Dryden

  Weed, Men, Fire

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.305-9.

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• I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

  Connie Nielsen

  Things In Life, Trying, Would Be

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

  Michael Nutter

  Opportunity, Thinking, Cities

  "Philly Mayor Michael Nutter Thinks Local At DNC". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 5, 2012.

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• To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

  John Arbuthnot

  Soul, Desire, Bliss

  John Arbuthnot (1751). “A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”, p.25

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• Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

  Jean Ingelow

  Greatness, Reign

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.244

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• I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth.
  I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality of opportunity - my kids have had advantage over 99 percent of the kids in the country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Believe, Kids

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• Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality, and who are the constituted guardians of religion. Enquiry, it seems, suits not them. They have drawn the line, beyond which human reason shall not pass -- above which human virtue shall not aspire! All that is without their faith or above their rule, is immorality, is atheism, is -- I know not what.

  Frances Wright

  Challenges, Atheism, Suits

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• We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Bidding, Done

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.82, Everyman's Library

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• Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Failure, Men, Height

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• The variety of minds served the economy of nature in many ways. The Creator, who designed the human brain for activity, had insured the restlessness of all minds by enabling no single one to envisage all the qualities of the creation. Since no one by himself could aspire to a serene knowledge of the whole truth, all men had been drawn into an active, exploratory and cooperative attitude.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Attitude, Men, Brain

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1993). “The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

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• It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, People, Important

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