"If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater."
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"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim."
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"My aim is just to make good music every single time."
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"To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers."
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"Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained."
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"Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass."
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"The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent."
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"The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim."
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"You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory."
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"I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart."
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"Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone."
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"The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy."
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"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
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"The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love."
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"It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless."
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"Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake."
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"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
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"Aim for service and success will follow!"
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"We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it."
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"Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me."
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