All 4 Uses of
aspire
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She had never aspired to the presidency; the Operating Department was her only concern.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- The sole secret of his rise in life was the fact that he was a product of chance and knew it and aspired to nothing else.†
Chpt 2.6
- By the situation of the moment, they had concluded that Wesley Mouch was a man of superlative skill and cunning, since millions aspired to power, but he was the one who had achieved it.†
Chpt 2.6
- But this-she thought in consternation-was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve.†
Chpt 3.2
Definition:
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(aspire) to hope to be successful -- especially in a career