Aim Quotes

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What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big. — Deng Xiaoping
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm… — Emil Zatopek
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and… — Vir Das
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy. — Evgeny Morozov
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might.… — Evgeny Morozov
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force… — Douglas Rushkoff
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of… — Tullian Tchividjian
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. — Oscar Wilde
in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking… — E E Cummings
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… — Donald Miller
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin… — Graham Greene
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. — Bertolt Brecht
Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation… — Jose Saramago
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does.… — Molly Ivins
Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people… — John Ralston Saul
I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye.… — Stephen King
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. — Terry Pratchett
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of… — H. L. Mencken
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth… — Jean-Paul Sartre

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