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• Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Hope, Self, Ignorant

  Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.80, Princeton University Press

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• The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

  Charles-Francois Dupuis

  Men, Order, Genius

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• The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

  Jasmine Guy

  Appreciate, Church, Nuclear Families

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• All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

  Walter Pater

  Music, Art, Conditions

  Studies in the History of the Renaissance "The School of Giorgione" (1873)

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• Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishment of a central worldwide dictatorship.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Ambition, Government, Political

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• And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation.

  Paul the Apostle

  Men, Foundation, Missionary

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• Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Strong, Mean, Men

  "Freedom from Fear". Aung San Suu Kyi's Acceptance Speech for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 1, 1990.

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• All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  People, Musician, Beginners

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• Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

  Satya Nadella

  Perseverance, Three, Microsoft

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• Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the shell of your past and step into the rich possibilities of your future. God does not give us dreams that we cannot fulfill. If you want to do something great with your life-whether it's to fall madly in love, become a teacher, be a great parent-if you aspire to do something beyond what you are doing now, this is the time to begin. Trust yourself.

  Debbie Ford

  Dream, Spiritual, Teacher

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• I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Men, Odds

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• We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

  Max Stirner

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• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  Rachael Harris

  Love, Character, Careers

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

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• All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Christian, Dream, Baseball

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• I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Wise, Writing

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• Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs.

  Lee Clow

  Dog, Car, Pet

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• I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Order, Enlightenment

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• Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

  Pierre Corneille

  Ambition, Sated, Has Beens

  "Cinna". Book by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene i, 1641.

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• Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

  Samuel Gompers

  Struggle, Order, Long

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• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Hero

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

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• Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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• To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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• Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Angel, Thinking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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