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«Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.»
«Architecture aims at Eternity»
Author: Christopher Wren | Keywords: aims, architecture
«A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.»
«An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning | About: Ignorance | Keywords: aims, minister
«ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.»
«A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.»
«An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod»
«Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.'»
Author: Lao Tzu (Philosopher) | About: Honor, Leadership | Keywords: aims, fulfilled, talks
«Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor»
Author: Proverb | About: Charity, Pride | Keywords: aims, feed
«All good, intellectual people come together at one place and try to bring harmony by means of exchange of thoughts and ideas. When all of them unite they progress rapidly and attain their aims. The external forces cannot harm them in any way. »
Author: Rig Veda | Keywords: aims, come together, rapidly

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