All 5 Uses of
aspiration
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- I don't know what form of corruption is your motive-but I want you to learn that there are things beyond your reach, beyond your aspiration or your malice.†
Chpt 2.9
- Yet these had been her stars-she thought, looking down-these had been her goal, her beacon, the aspiration drawing her upon her upward course.†
Chpt 2.10
- They remained silent, letting the room be filled by the sounds which centuries of men and of struggle had established as the symbol of joyous attainment: the blast of the cork, the laughing tinkle of a pale gold liquid running into two broad cups filled with the weaving reflections of candles, the whisper of bubbles rising through two crystal stems, almost demanding that everything in sight rise, too, in the same aspiration.†
Chpt 3.4
- Why do you now moan complaints about man's impotence and the futility of human aspirations?†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(aspiration) a cherished desire