#aspired

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago. ↗

— Asa Gray

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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime. ↗

— Gary Lucas

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I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

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My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

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