Top Aims Quotes
Envy aims very high.
Ovid
In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
Wilhelm Dilthey
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Mortimer Adler
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps All Aims Quotes
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy 
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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
William Gilmore Simms
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Tryon Edwards
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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
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Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
Edward Thorndike
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
James Q. Wilson
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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan
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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
Paul Wellstone
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