#aim

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. ↗

— Brooks Adams

#certain #community #friend #friendship #hardly

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#better #both #clever #craft #distraction

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#domination #elsewhere #far #fascism #ideological

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world. ↗

— John Amery

#appeal #arms #been #call #defence

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#captain #forever #highest #his #keep

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#jerusalem #palestinian #praying #prevent #ready

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ↗

— Aristotle

#avoid #pain #pleasure #secure #wise

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. ↗

— Aristotle

#any #arises #because #claim #democracy

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, 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. ↗

— Aristotle

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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#bands #claim #clue #crap #lifestyle