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A well-aimed spear is worth three. -- Tad Williams
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. -- Pierre Corneille
Very specifically, Nickelodeon is aimed at eight- and nine-year-olds. -- Kyle Dunnigan
Curiosity is always good if it is aimed at learning. -- Unarine Ramaru
An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way. -- David R. Mains
In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde. -- Powell Clayton
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. -- Jack Miller
The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow. -- Claudia Rankine
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. -- Friedrich Engels
He aimed at the lawyer's heart but missed it. It was a mistrial. -- Natalya Vorobyova
Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . . -- John Steinbeck
Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low. -- John Masefield
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. -- Carlos Fuentes
There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business. -- Matthew Lesko
For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures. -- Charles Duhigg
A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person... -- Michael Meade
Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol. -- Stephen Harper
Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience. -- Sanjay Dutt
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace. -- George W. Bush
The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you. -- Walt Whitman
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. -- Herbert Simon
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. -- Upton Sinclair
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. -- Upton Sinclair
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'? -- Frankie Boyle
Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food. -- Lloyd Kaufman
As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality. -- Franz Kafka
It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base. -- Stephen Richards
We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming. -- Warren Spector
Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order. -- Hans Arp
Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger. -- Derek Landy
The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. -- Alexei Navalny
I had become an arrow of sound aimed at the most terrible creature in the city. -- Fran Wilde
You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down. -- William Stafford
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. -- Philip Kitcher
Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers. -- Bill Hayden
System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy. -- George Washington
The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods -- Vilfredo Pareto
That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution. -- Joe Royle
If you look at my policies they're all aimed at empowering people to make their own decisions. -- George W. Bush
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. -- John Steinbeck
Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust? -- Leif Enger
Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at. -- John Templeton
Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own. . . -- Noam Chomsky
Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative. -- James K. A. Smith
Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. -- Fairfax M. Cone
Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes. -- Terry Pratchett
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. -- Henry Louis Gates
Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. -- Steve Maraboli
The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. -- John Henry Cox
Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology. -- Khem Veasna
A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old. -- Joe Eszterhas
Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed. -- Alexander Hamilton
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. -- Agnetha Faltskog
Russia has not taken part and is not going to take part in any actions aimed at removing legitimate government. -- Vladimir Putin
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. -- Joseph Stalin
In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power. -- Anne Royall
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. -- Joseph Stalin
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth. -- Thomas Carlyle
Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given. -- Kim Jong Il
They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money. -- David Saperstein
I applaud President Obama for launching his 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success. -- Charles B. Rangel
My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah." -- Mike Stud
I've always thought it would be fun to have a vegan campaign aimed at gays called "Don't be a Dairy Queen." -- Dan Mathews
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. -- Miguel de Cervantes
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written. -- Gabriel García Márquez
Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly. -- Zach Braff
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free. -- Henry Williamson
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free. -- Henry Williamson
You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart. -- Madonna Ciccone
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant. -- Theodor Adorno
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state. -- John Milton
Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions. -- Bernie Sanders
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in. -- Aaron Levie
The West's sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming both sides. -- Vladimir Putin
If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient." -- Gore Vidal
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life. -- Julia Cameron
'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life. -- Julia Cameron
Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat. -- Alva Myrdal
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist. -- Gary Bauer
I studied journalism at university, and I started a little bit of work on a woman's magazine called Minx that was aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds. -- Rhianna Pratchett
I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up. -- Art Spiegelman
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -- George Carlin
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit. -- Michel de Montaigne
I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach. -- Dean Spade
Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors. -- Ayn Rand
The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years. -- Lajos Kossuth
DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women. -- Gail Collins
When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way. -- Neil Young
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. -- Bob Cousy
The Obama administration has revealed the size of America's nuclear arsenal. We have 1,000 warheads aimed at China, 1,000 aimed at Russia, and the rest aimed at Fox News. -- Jay Leno
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose. -- Herbert Croly
Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost. -- John Adams
In every moment, the Universe is whispering to you. You're constantly surrounded by signs, coincidences, and synchronicities , all aimed at propelling you in the direction of your destiny. -- Denise Linn
Principle II:;: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist. -- William Ernest Hocking
As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel. -- Jeff Lindsay
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups. -- George Michael
I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top. -- Mitch Hewer
Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever. -- Albert Einstein
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at. -- Nancy Werlin
Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush`s story yielded no tangible dividends. -- Chris Hayes
You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
She pulled down the blanket and aimed baby Sophie's bottom at him like she might unleash a fusillade of weapons-grade poopage such as the guileless Beta Male had never seen. -- Christopher Moore
Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental. -- David Galenson
We, as citizens or members of people's organisations, can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one. -- Katarina Kruhonja
I feel 'Britannia High' is aimed at an older audience than 'High School Musical.' 'Britannia High' is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top. -- Mitch Hewer
It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on. -- Nicholson Baker
The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative. -- Twyla Tharp
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. -- John Desmond Bernal
The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart. -- Ramana Maharshi
The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed. -- George Washington
But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over. -- John Trumbull
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers. -- Ludwig von Mises
The stubborn stance of some European governments on the refugee question is a reprisal less aimed at Angela Merkel or (Vice Chancellor) Sigmar Gabriel than at certain people on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin. -- Martin Schulz

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