"Cultivated leisure is the aim of man."
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"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."
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"Whither should we aim if not towards God?"
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"The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity."
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"All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature."
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"The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both."
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"The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims."
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"You can only have one aim per debate."
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"The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while."
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"So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim."
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"So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead."
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"The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything."
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"You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer."
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"I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest."
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"The soul that has no established aim loses itself"
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"The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth."
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"What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning."
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"Let every action aim solely at the common good."
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"It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them."
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"We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most."
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