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

Thomas Aquinas

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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

Ernst Fischer

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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William S. Burroughs

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

Aristotle

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

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Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

Phyllis Diller

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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Charles de Gaulle

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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

William Ralph Inge

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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

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If four things are followed — having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance — then anything can be achieved.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo

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Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead — but aim to do something big.

Deng Xiaoping

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A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.

Richard Armitage

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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

B. R. Ambedkar

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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Walt Disney

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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

Peter Drucker

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It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

Elle Macpherson

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