My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.
Claes Oldenburg
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F. GARY GRAY From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
F.A. HAYEK 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON I can be horrifically single-minded.
TRISHA GODDARD Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted
ORISON SWETT MARDEN My aim in life is to find my aim in life.
SUPERNA BATHEJA I am insatiable - aim to sate me but never dull my flames of desire that are fuelled by the existenc...
TRUTH DEVOUR Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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WILLIAM JAMES There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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DONALD MCNULTY To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
ABDUL KALAM Without written goals, we fail to plan and to run with single-minded purpose.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
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JANE AUSTEN To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
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NANCY PEARCEY Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B. R. AMBEDKAR Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B.R. AMBEDKAR Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
GRETCHEN RUBIN You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.
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CONSTANCE PENLEY Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence
ARISTOTLE Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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LUCY LAWLESS I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
SAM ELLIOTT Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA We are a community-minded family. We were raised to give back.
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EDWARD FISCHER No human creature can give orders to love.
GEORGE SAND A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
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JAY LAIRD To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
JACK KEVORKIAN The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
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