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  • The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

    Order   Rebellion   Form  
    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.23, Vintage
  • Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

    Bird   Mind   Aspiration  
    William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.424, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • Selfishness is the only real atheism.

    Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria
  • In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

    Names   Demand   Causes  
    "Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea". Speech on the occasion of the 165th birthday of Karl Marx and the Centenary of his death, May 03, 1983.
  • The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.

    Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library
  • The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

  • Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

  • Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

    Real   Land   Bird  
    Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.86, Princeton University Press
  • Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.

    Struggle   Europe   Class  
    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”
  • We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

    Long   Treasure   Earth  
  • So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.

    Dream   Community   Looks  
  • When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

    Stars   Rocks   Clothes  
    Interview with Lisa Marie Presley, www.fanpop.com.
  • Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

  • It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their basic national aims, their just national aspirations, without violence. Unfortunately, the behavior of the Sharon administration, and before this of the Barak administration, has shown the Palestinians the opposite: namely, that they will achieve nothing without violence.

    Source: progressive.org
  • No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.

    Law   Relax   Want  
  • My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

    Faith   Ambition   Views  
    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin
  • And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

    Book   Writing   Mean  
    "George Saunders and Andy Ward". www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.
  • The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

    Wisdom   Art   Prayer  
  • Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines.

    Character   Men   Acting  
  • What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

    Real   Moving   Community  
  • India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.

    "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.
  • I've got no aspirations to become an A-list celebrity.

  • Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

    Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.2033, e-artnow
  • You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the internet industry it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

    "Calacanis calls time on the internet 'me-toos'". Interview with Zoe Margolis, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.
  • All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

    Letter to John Fraser, 1868.
  • The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

    Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee
  • The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

    Anthony Trollope (1869). “He Knew He was Right”, p.80
  • Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

    "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.
  • Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

    "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.
  • We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.

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