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“Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.”

Thinking Knows Men Kind Able America Felt Perfect Attention Records Middle Thirds Paid Towns Aim Size Access Genre Fake Hipster Nashville

Author:Jack White

“To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.”

Kind Reason Character Forget Goodness Highest Aim Right Thing Improving Forget It

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.”

Ifs Kind Enjoy Hours Loses Aim Contentment Providence Prudent Relish Pow

Author:Nathaniel Cotton

“Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.”

Wells Kind May Whole Hands Eye Able Views Objects Succeed Aim Distance Sticks Selfish Command Horizon Cunning Discretion

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.”

Men Should Mind Kind Art Body Action Certain Position Activity Dignity Aim Painter Features Proportion Limbs Vigor Sculptors Sublimity

Author:Edmund Burke

“To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in their thoughts and imaginations at least) to face any kind of suffering when motivated by noble aims like the vague and tremendous concept of freedom ... Or, in their humility (or sloth - who knows?) men are quite willing to leave decisions to others 'who know more about it than we do.”

Knows Men Trying Kind War Eye Faces Suffering Imagination Decision Humility Willing Involved Terrible Succeed Concepts Aim Noble Motivated Know Me Vague Sloth Stop War

Author:Dorothy Day

“The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.”

People Kind Art Self Space Pleasure Magic Source Skills Empty Aim Senses Urges Dread Sophisticated Supplies Ornaments Decoration Empty Space Sensuous Self Indulgent

Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

“As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era.”

Heart Kind Stories Written Adventure Tradition Aim Awakening Mysterious Conquer Eras Narrative Traveler Domain Emerging Timely Great Adventure Uncharted

Author:Yossi Ghinsberg

“Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.”

Ifs Thinking Kind States Political Order Politics Community Views Greater Society Degrees Highest Aim Embrace Association

Author:Aristotle

“Bin Laden was once targeted by President Clinton. President Clinton wanted to kill him but couldn't get him. Of course not, we all know what kind of aim Clinton has.”

Knows Kind Wanted Courses President Aim Clinton Bin Laden President Clinton

Author:Jay Leno

“Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.”

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.”

Kind Values Social Divine Aim Structure Strive Come Up Myth Mythology Strife Social Structure

Author:Zsuzsanna Budapest

“The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.”

Giving Humans Kind Real Belief Goal Human Beings Impossible Share Speech Tasks Aim Contact Belonging Being Real Warrants

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.”

Kind Objects Transformation Aim Abandonment Narcissistic Libido

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.”

Should Kind Children Seems Knowing Aim Mathematics Instruction One Of A Kind Knowing And Doing

Author:Immanuel Kant

“A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.”

Firsts Kind Ends Liberty Approach Aim

Author:Milton Friedman

“Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic overload. The clamorous masterpieces, jostling for attention side by side, would lose their distinctiveness, and the beauty of each of them would be at war with the beauty of the rest.”

Should Kind War Ends Would Be Sides Loses Attention Cases Aim Supreme Aesthetic Masterpiece Salute Overload

Book:Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

“... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.”

Kind Whole Space Effort Quiet Aim Add Errors Focused Folly Weary Restlessness Curb

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Girls kind of get crazy when they have guns. These girls had never done it, and all they wanted to do was inflict as much pain as they could. We had one rule: Don't shoot us between the legs. But their aim didn't necessarily follow that rule.”

Kind Done Wanted Pain Girl Crazy Gun Aim Legs

Author:Jon Heder

“Be clear in your mind what you want the outcome of your communication to achieve. If your aim is more than just to vent your anger towards a meat eater and you sincerely want that person to be a kinder more compassionate being, then you must start by seeing them as a kind and compassionate person. If you are unable to see them as kind and compassionate, then how dare you demand them to see themselves that way.”

Ifs Way Want Mind Kind Persons Clear Seeing Achieve Communication Demand Aim Dare What You Want Meat Outcomes Compassionate Sincerely Kinder

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter in it would be about as effective as composing a symphony with hopes that it would depose a despot. On top of that, I personally don't think that my version of art is the best way to deal with political issues at all, or, more specifically, the place to make a point. Not that art can't, but it's the rare art that still creates something lasting if its main aim was purely to change a particular unfair social structure.”

Thinking Kind Long Art Political Art Is Aim Unfair

Author:Chris Ware

“Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.”

People World Kind Has Beens Force Century Involved Aim Various Tricks Establishment Stamps Get Involved Examination Dissent

Author:Pete Seeger

“There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.”

People Kind Doe Two Humanity Powerful Weapons Aim Satire Contempt Powerless Vulgar Ridicule Chuckles Foibles Shared Humanity

Author:Molly Ivins

“Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.”

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.”

“William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”

Men Kind Together Aim Tyranny All Kinds Cooperation Pulling Free Man Despotism Vetinari Pulling Together

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“Be kind. Aim for my heart.”

Heart Kind My Heart Aim Be Kind

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.”

Men Mind Kind Cases Wise Four Tasks Aim Appearance

Book:The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.”

Kind Mean Littles Book Age Values Information Students Battle Stones Aim Plant Insight Experiments All Kinds Honour Scholar

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.”

Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state uses Buddhism as an instrument of power, so there are even Buddhists monks who say the Tamils should be eliminated. Thai Buddhists are not perfect either. Some Thai Buddhist monks have compromised with the kind and possess cars and other luxuries. In many Buddhist countries, the emphasis is on being goody-goody, which is not good enough. I am for buddhism with a small 'b' which is non-violent, practical and aims to eliminate the cause of suffering.”

“Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.”

Kind Doe Feelings Joy Causes Understanding Born United Creativity Courage Talent Creation Anxiety Aim Totality Great Joy Zest Using Your Talents

Author:Rollo May

“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.”

Source: White Collar: The American Middle Classes

“The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do not claim that the reproducible by itself is more important than the unique. But I do claim that the unique exceeds the treatment by scientific method. Indeed it is the aim of this method to find and test natural laws.”

Kind Important Law Science Natural Particular Unique Concerned Tests Scientist Claims Aim Method Treatment Exceed Natural Law Scientific Method

Author:Wolfgang Pauli

“Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Humans Kind Would Be Humanity Social Causes Justice Race Progress Impossible Bases Aim Human Race Selection Objectivity Undesirable

Author:Howard Zinn

“You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.”

Thinking Trying Kind Important Use Light Natural Results Materials Aspect Aim Architecture Characteristics Transparency Natural Materials Japanese Architecture

Author:Kengo Kuma

“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.”

World Life Kind Doe Ideas Bits Deals Break Type Hundred Aim Notion Nine Compromise Changing The World Bloody Breeze Ninety Niche Ninety Nine

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.”

World Way Should Kind Different Use Able Values Lost Language Pay Messages Universal Aim Prepared International Mediums Peculiar Different Kinds Be Prepared Submission

Author:Chinua Achebe

“We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.”

Men Needs Kind Women Feminism Century Aim Institutions Womens Rights

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.”

Men Needs Kind Women Teach Feminism Century Military Illusion Tough Aim Institutions Corporate Womens Rights Hierarchy

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there”

Giving Kind Ideas Bigs Might Imagination Revolution Aim Data Complexity Thought Provoking Leap Provoking Paradigm Facilitate Big Ideas Paradigm Shift

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature”

Kind Literature Opportunity Games Fun Aim Rounds Sexy Features Tribes Reproduction

Author:David Brin

“I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.”

Kind Directors Messages Aim

Author:Park Chan-wook

“Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if allowed to develop. Every rise of lust, if it has its way reaches the height of villainy; it is like the grave that is never satisfied. The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens men’s hearts, and brings them to ruin.”

Ifs Men Way Firsts Heart Kind Would Be Sin Atheism Aim Graves Lust Satisfied Ruins Height Modest Glances Adultery Proposal Unbelief Villainy

Author:John Owen

“But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.”

Men Kind War Desire Wealth Liberty Mankind Aim Sake Arise All Kinds Honorable Strife Honorable Man

Author:Sallust

“The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; The Third, that it aims its beak to the skies; The Fourth, that it does not have a definite color; The Fifth, that it sings very softly.”

Firsts Kind Doe Suffering Company Five Sky Conditions Color Quiet Highest Bird Thirds Aim Fourth Solitary Definite Fifth Beaks

Book:San Juan de la Cruz

Source: San Juan de la Cruz