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“The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.”

Life Needs Ideas Science Disease Ideals Aim Medicine Physicians Long Life

Author:William James Mayo

“Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.”

Needs Should Humans Soul Suffering Human Beings Crime Aim Punishment Infliction

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking about 'saving the planet' is an effective way to show their 'caring' for humanity and that it is the easiest way to maximize votes irrespective of any relevant activity which would aim at the real needs of people. The global warming dogma has become a very easy form of escapism from the current reality.”

“In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives about us, the value for good and evil, of the aims men have pursued and the means they have adopted. It is good, from time to time, to view the present as already past, and to examine what elements it contains that will add to the world's store of permanent possessions, that will live and give life when we and all our generation have perished.”

Source: Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

“If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and the miserably poor, the have-nots deprived even of essentials and people who thoughtlessly waste what others so desperately need. Such countries are an affront to the dignity of the human person. He further said, Ethics demand that systems be attuned to the needs of man, and not that man be sacrificed for the sake of the system.”

People Ifs Men World Needs Humans Persons Said Country Sides Poor Rich Environment Demand Essentials Waste Ethics Dignity Aim Sake Tolerate Globalization Deprived Affront Marginalization

Author:Pope John Paul II

“When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.”

“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

“Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity.”

World Needs Action Spiritual Values Humanity Energy Women Moral Aim Crisis Protest World History Materialistic Crusades Resolute Moral Values Spiritual Energy

Author:Vida Goldstein

“Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.”

People Needs Wells Ideas Creativity Aim Shooting Target Breakthrough Need A Change Launching

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.”

Needs Goal Communication Involved Mets Aim Resolution Satisfying Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.”

Needs Order Goal Needed Destruction Aim Deep Thought

Author:David White

“To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.”

Needs Eye Aim Fingers

Author:Moshe Dayan

“You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast.”

Needs Heart Problem Running Aim Beast Running Away

Author:Ruby Wax

“The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens.”

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“You don’t need an AR-15. It’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use, and in fact, you don’t need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun.”

Needs Facts Use Protect Harder Aim Rounds Protect Yourself Shotguns

Author:Joe

“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.”

Life Needs Ordinary Aim Satisfaction

Author:E. M. Forster

“Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.”

Needs Humans Stars Goal Challenges Aim Reaching Reaching For The Stars Cavemen

Author:Richard Branson

“The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine Corps needs, and is proudest of all that she has no nickname. She is a "Marine."”

Needs Able Willing Aim Marine Integrated Assignments Marine Corps Nicknames Consonants

Author:Katherine Amelia Towle

“You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.”

Needs Goal Focus Aim Realising

Author:Rohit Sharma