"An improper art aims at exciting in the……" — James Joyce

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• Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social… — Jacques Barzun
• One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of… — Mortimer Adler
• An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
• If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will,… — Carl von Clausewitz
• Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will… — Maya Angelou
• The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the… — Sulak Sivaraksa
• I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and… — George Stillman Hillard
• The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. — Ludwig von Mises
• Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a… — Watchman Nee

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