#aspiration

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#men

If you will but aspire You will attain to all that you desire. Before an atom of such need the Sun Seems dim and mirky by comparison. It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly Beyond the further reaches of the sky. ↗

— Farid al-Din Attar

#dreams-coming-true #inspiration #strength #dreams

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it. ↗

— Chinua Achebe.

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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Allen

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I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records. ↗

— Drew Brees

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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

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