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“For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.”

Source: The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?

“Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.”

Ifs Bigs Successful Aim Holes Satire Target Blast Trajectory Singleness

Book:Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays

Source: Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays

“It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the existing fortunes appear as privileges for which there is no justification. Policy is then certain to aim at taking these fortunes out of private hands, either by the slow process of heavy taxation of inheritance or by the quicker one of outright confiscation. A system based on private property and control of the means of production presupposes that such property and control can be acquired by any successful man.”

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.”

Knows World Doe Facts Wisdom Politics Community Economy Successful Theory Activity Normal Commitment Scientist Aim Fundamentals Assumption Liberalism Puzzles Novelty Subversive

Author:Thomas Kuhn

“I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.”

People Successful Aim Significant Being Successful Significance

Author:Alyson Stoner

“I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.”

War Would Be House White Successful Madness Aim Iraq Telling The Truth White House Afghanistan Distraction Completion

Author:Bob Graham

“I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Sound Successful Aim Expected Being Successful Successful Artists

Author:Jim Shaw