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  • It's something to aspire to.†   (source)
  • Aspiring champions have twenty-four hours in which to put their names forward.†   (source)
  • Helene, their daughter, is nineteen now Short-haired, petite, an aspiring violinist.†   (source)
  • Aspire to a level of coolness known only as ..."Botanist Cool."†   (source)
  • Lots of farm couples aspired to retire there if it should come time to sell off the place on contract and move to town.†   (source)
  • And the New York girls—although they weren't always aspiring actresses—were reputed to "do it" with even less resistance than the marginal protestations offered by the California variety.†   (source)
  • He often put on this face, an imitation of the sensible, no-nonsense dad I think he aspired to be.†   (source)
  • It seems the boy aspires to take the black.†   (source)
  • "No, you aspire to design your outfit and be like me, your fashion hero," says Cinna.†   (source)
  • But she knew he wouldn't agree; like the aspiring politician he was, he loved being the center of attention.†   (source)
  • By the time Sister Drummond finished telling her that she was an abomination to the traditions of Nightingale nursing to which she aspired, and should consider herself lucky to be spending the next month sorting soiled linen, not only Langland but half the girls present were weeping.†   (source)
  • Fronted by a lush lawn and palm trees, the Union Passenger Terminal had opened in 1954, an art deco-style building once aspiring to grandness but since overtaken by a certain grey municipal malaise.†   (source)
  • As an aspiring politician, it was essential for Comrade Pillai to be seen in his chosen constituency as a man of influence.†   (source)
  • They brought forth scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate, smashing their shells with iron mallets; tall aspiring trees of breathtaking slenderness and color which the Vogons cut down and burned the crabmeat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on.†   (source)
  • I never aspired to wealth or fame.†   (source)
  • It's useful tokeep in mind that any aspiring writer is probably also a hungry, aggressive reader as well and will have absorbed a tremendous amount of literary history and literary culture.†   (source)
  • But it was inexplicable that she continued to wear her black robes, and it grated on him a bit, for she did not pray, and she avoided speaking their language, and she avoided their people, and s, sometimes he wanted to shout, well take it off then, and then he would wince inwardly, since he believed he loved her, and his resentment, when it bubbled up like this, made him angry with himself, with the man he seemed to be becoming, a less than romantic man, which was not the sort of man he believed a man should aspire to be.†   (source)
  • Reason aspires to wisdom, Will aspires to courage, and Appetite must be curbed so that temperance can be exercised.†   (source)
  • Aspiring country club members and future residents of Kleen Korners only.†   (source)
  • The Nakhimov School was a special three-year prep school for youngsters aspiring to a career at sea.†   (source)
  • Proudly wearing Mao's army uniform, in January 1974— aspiring to become a true and faithful follower of the communist ideal.†   (source)
  • The Industry feeds on them and spits back images, sends out movies and TV programs, over my networks, images of wealth and exotic things beyond their wildest dreams, back to those people, and it gives them something to dream about, something to aspire to.†   (source)
  • He began construction of a six-room schoolhouse, because he aspired to the day when all the children and adults of Tres Marias would know how to read, write, and do simple arithmetic, even though he was not in favor of their acquiring any additional learning, for fear they would fill their minds with ideas unsuited to their station and condition.†   (source)
  • Filing for bankruptcy at the age of twenty-eight was not something I had aspired to do.†   (source)
  • I gave him my most critical stare—the one I used to crush aspiring singers during Broadway auditions.†   (source)
  • "Booth proposed," aspiring kidnapper George Atzerodt recalled, "that we should kill the president."†   (source)
  • Whatever my fate may be, I don't aspire to rule.†   (source)
  • Adequate, though, has never been a measure I have aspired to reach, and so I was looking forward to improving in all the areas I needed to for the next level.†   (source)
  • One might almost assume he aspired to Great House status.†   (source)
  • No angel will aspire to it!†   (source)
  • Wasn't that a little of what Dan was like—scorning the popular opinion, the popular crowd, and aspiring to something more?†   (source)
  • They were the first South African expedition ever to be granted a permit to climb Everest, a mixed-race group that aspired to put the first black person on the summit.†   (source)
  • Visiting valets, I have found, are often the worst offenders, aspiring as they usually do to the position of butler with some urgency.†   (source)
  • Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.†   (source)
  • People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.†   (source)
  • We will aspire to the example that you set for us, and we will tell the young warriors who join us about you and the standard that you set.†   (source)
  • And I felt betrayed, I felt that I'd betrayed myself, and you, and everything—of value, everything, anyway, that one aspires to become, one doesn't want to be simply another grey, shapeless monster.†   (source)
  • We asked Javaria what she wanted to become, thinking she might aspire to be a doctor or lawyer.†   (source)
  • For someone who aspires to be a chemistry teacher, you're off to a very poor start, Mr. Fuentes.†   (source)
  • Everyone I know in the entire world aspires to owning a Denny and George scarf.†   (source)
  • My mother was out of town, at a writers' conference she attended every August, where she taught workshops to aspiring romance novelists, soaking up buckets of admiration for three days and two nights in the Florida Keys.†   (source)
  • If you thought that my wishing and—aspiring—would ever bring me such as that, I'd sure try.†   (source)
  • We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.†   (source)
  • Captain Black, who had aspired to the position himself, maintained that Major Major really was Henry Fonda but was too chickenshit to admit it.†   (source)
  • Hi," said Max, standing up very straight, aspiring to her height.†   (source)
  • The final member of our ragtag band of aspiring yogis was Sister Platte, who took proper form very seriously.†   (source)
  • James Voskuhl had been an aspiring musician who had floated on the edge of the music scene in Seattle, finally hooking his way into representing a couple of upcoming bands.†   (source)
  • As an aspiring lawyer, he must not marry early, Jeremiah Gridley had warned.†   (source)
  • It was the archetype of archetypes; Paralon was the reality that the legend of Camelot aspired to be.†   (source)
  • So says the aspiring fiction writer.†   (source)
  • Like nearly every kid of his era, my father grew up wearing hand-me-downs, neat and clean clothes but hand-me-downs, from various cousins and uncles, and aspiring for more.†   (source)
  • "The traveler who aspires to reach the highlands cannot be borne along in a carriage or a hill cart," she wrote.†   (source)
  • It's a matter of one aspiring to be a gentleman, for example, or a gentlewoman.†   (source)
  • Aspire, each of you, to some day follow in his footsteps.†   (source)
  • He is the same man who declared in the Prudence Crandall case that, 'Though they may aspire to equality, it is folly to think that the African race occupies the same pedestal of development and intelligence as white men.'†   (source)
  • The educated Englishman was our model; what we aspired to be were "black Englishmen," as we were sometimes derisively called.†   (source)
  • This particular conference would boast no more than two hundred published and aspiring writers.†   (source)
  • There was little incentive for academic education; the young had but one future to which to aspire.†   (source)
  • To help aspiring riders establish themselves in the sport, a horse ridden by a bug boy had his impost reduced by five pounds.†   (source)
  • It was a trendy neighborhood, peopled by residents who patronized fashionable shops and private clubs, and who aspired to move just another notch up the social and ecomonic ladder.†   (source)
  • Why is it that most people aspire to little more than corn-fort?†   (source)
  • These were people who I looked up to and aspired to be like and here I was, a young SEAL who had barely passed his sit-up test.†   (source)
  • The rocks rolled negligently into ankles, and now and then a small round rock would glance off its flatter cousins and take to the air in a series of leaps that successfully aspired to the momentum of a military projectile.†   (source)
  • She had never aspired to the presidency; the Operating Department was her only concern.†   (source)
  • Alongside the development of individual abilities, the education of the individual aspires to revive an ideal that is geared toward the service of our fellow man, and that needs to take the place of the glorification of power and outer success.†   (source)
  • My entire life I tried to shut my ears to what happened in the outside realm and I didn't aspire to learn men's writing, but I did learn women's ways, stories, and nu shu.†   (source)
  • They aspired greedily, and then refused to face the responsibilities they had created.†   (source)
  • In God 'tis glory: And when men aspire,
    'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
    —John Dryden "Absalom and Achitophel"†   (source)
  • Dressed like an aspiring plumber.†   (source)
  • Before he made that call, he would have said he was a man who aspired to peace, and rest.†   (source)
  • A moody man, often competent, bad-tempered, wealthy, aspires to a place in Richmond society, frets and broods and fights with superiors.†   (source)
  • By living here it's clear these folk are aspiring to a more privileged life, though perhaps it's true that most will never see better than the West Hill of Ebbington, which by all rights should be as good as any place in what really matters, just as righteous, just as valued, but isn't all the same.†   (source)
  • Instead of aspiring to immortality, they aspired to living a healthy, full life....†   (source)
  • Maidens aspiring to godheads ROS: And vice versa GUIL: Your kind of thing, is it?†   (source)
  • I knew that anyone who aspired to become an Institute man had to tolerate the solitary astonishment of that first day.†   (source)
  • It is because I am a man who occasionally aspires to things beyond the belly and the phallus.†   (source)
  • It was a cruel period for the aspiring swordsman, especially if he was young and destitute.†   (source)
  • They're to aspire to.†   (source)
  • The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.   (source)
    aspires = hopes
  • But the Piazza did not aspire to elegance, service, or subtlety.†   (source)
  • He aspires to rule my Barony, yet he cannot rule himself.†   (source)
  • If it wasn't for the hydrogen bomb, a man could still aspire.†   (source)
  • Once, this sort of night had been all I aspired to, everything going like clockwork, just perfect.†   (source)
  • I was as skilled a healer as Ebrose, but aspired to surpass him.†   (source)
  • "Like-a-lazy-bottom!" sang the goose, aspiring to an operatic tremolo.†   (source)
  • His voice aspired to sternness and crumbled into be-seechment.†   (source)
  • Astaroth aspires to be the 'Great God' and he's masqueraded as a demon to achieve this goal.†   (source)
  • We pulled out onto Main Street in Scarlett's Ford Aspire.†   (source)
  • Every great lord has his maester, every lesser lord aspires to one.†   (source)
  • I don't rightly know what to aspire after.†   (source)
  • She turned off the engine of the Aspire, dropping her keychain in her lap.†   (source)
  • When his cup was filled the king drank, and said, "Horpe and Massey aspire to your father's seat.†   (source)
  • As in your world, it does happen—usually by a relative who aspires to ascend to the throne.†   (source)
  • She was there as an aspiring writer and had the fledgling manuscript to prove it.†   (source)
  • Instead of aspiring to immortality, they aspired to living a healthy, full life....†   (source)
  • And now one doesn't aspire to that anymore.†   (source)
  • Cheeks born so low as mine must never aspire to such lofty cushions.†   (source)
  • It is thievery ....the thievery of men's lives, and no right-minded person should aspire to it.†   (source)
  • Everyone teaches us to aspire to higher things.†   (source)
  • Sitting there in the Aspire, we held on to our last bit of freedom.†   (source)
  • Did we aspire to share in the power that would be the Dragon Riders'?†   (source)
  • "Truth be told," she said, "Lord Bolton aspires to more than mere lordship.†   (source)
  • I have never aspired to rule; that is not my destiny.†   (source)
  • Supposedly, membership in The Ten is the highest honor a cadet can aspire to at the Institute.†   (source)
  • His name and memory are anathema to anyone who aspires to wear the ring.†   (source)
  • Renting a tuxedo seemed to me an excellent way to contract some hideous disease from its previous tenant, and I did not aspire to become the world's only virgin with pubic lice.†   (source)
  • It was the premiere school for those who aspired to high command, and though Ramius had not attended it as a student, his prowess as an operational commander won him an appointment as an instructor.†   (source)
  • For her, Pedro moved out of his neighborhood into a downtown apartment, thereby, without intending to do so, ascending to the middle class to which he had never aspired.†   (source)
  • It's a rented house right along the Mississippi River, a house that screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town.†   (source)
  • Amir jan. Our aspiring storyteller.†   (source)
  • It was even more special for us because my dad had always held Herschel out as the weight-free model for me to aspire to be like in my exercise and weight-training programs, when I was still too young to lift weights: "Remember, Herschel Walker became the best player in America by doing push-ups and sit-ups, just like you are ..."†   (source)
  • The most poor Prufrock could aspire to would be Bernardo and Marcellus, the guards who first see the ghost of Hamlet's father, or possibly Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the hapless courtiers used by both sides and ultimately sent unknowing to their own executions.†   (source)
  • She aspired to build the Fugees into a well-organized program that provided refugee children with the sorts of opportunities—athletic, educational, or otherwise—available to better-off American kids.†   (source)
  • Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself.†   (source)
  • Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through.†   (source)
  • Setting his fables in the palaces of yesteryear, Rosotsky lit them in the hazy aura of dreams, shot them in the soft focus of memories, and capped the first, second, and third acts with close-ups of his starlet: Anna aspiring; Anna distraught; Anna at long last in love.†   (source)
  • He did his duty for all Party organizations, and was always the first to volunteer for the menial tasks allotted to children aspiring to Party membership, which he knew was the only path to success or even comfort in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • I sometimes teach a creative writing course, and my aspiring fiction writers frequently bring in biblical parallels, classical or Shakespearean allusions, bits of REM songs, fairy tale fragments, anything you can think of.†   (source)
  • Marko sensed that in it there was room to grow, and saw that many aspiring naval cadets were like himself, if not mavericks then as close to mavericks as was possible in a society so closely controlled as his own.†   (source)
  • But as an aspiring architect, she couldn't help admiring the terraced gardens, the fountains and temples, the winding cobblestone streets and gleaming white villas.†   (source)
  • Jaime watched from the foot of the table, thinking of all those lords who aspired to a seat on the king's small council.†   (source)
  • He may aspire to wear one again.†   (source)
  • And while it was in many ways an ideal place to raise young children, there was little for young adults to aspire to.†   (source)
  • I do not lose myself in films or plays, I've never been a dreamer, and if I aspire to any form of mastery at all, it is one defined by rules of the Internal Revenue Service and codified by law.†   (source)
  • Maria Jane was just nineteen years old, an art major and aspiring painter at North Carolina State in Raleigh.†   (source)
  • She had never aspired to master the Drum Dance, nor participate in the arduous Calling of Names, nor—and this most particularly—best anyone in the Trial of the Long Knives.†   (source)
  • Not reacting takes a lot of work, but the more I'm able to do it, the more I feel like I'm being the person I aspire to be.†   (source)
  • I've never aspired to lead.†   (source)
  • And Hugh Hefner and a cluster of Playboy models, aspiring centerfolds on leave from the Mansion, tall, young, fair and so flawlessly complexioned they seem to be airbrushed.†   (source)
  • The dwarf king was known to be a staunch supporter of Nasuada and the Varden—as well as being Eragon's clan chief and foster brother—but no one could accuse him of aspiring to Nasuada's position, nor would the humans necessarily accept him as her replacement.†   (source)
  • He felt privileged, blessed in his profession, he told Jonathan Sewall: Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice?†   (source)
  • I was sure that mine about Everest was not mine alone; the highest point on earth, unattainable, foreign to all experience, was there for many boys and grown men to aspire toward, Thomas F Hornbein Everest: The West Ridge The actual particulars of the event are unclear, obscured by the accretion of myth.†   (source)
  • My outer life mirrored this conflict as I went from one extreme to another—sometimes aspiring to mystical otherworldliness and other times living in the nightlife music world not far removed from the criminal.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Why him-thirdculture vagabond from the Philippines, Java Hut extraordinaire, aspiring Magic Circle actor, unpublished novelist-he had no idea.†   (source)
  • It is common for aspiring jockeys to be so rubber-legged upon dismounting from their first circuit around the track that they are unable to walk back to the barn.†   (source)
  • All the born-female aspiring divas (most of whom lived in B Dorm) immediately recognized that here was a master at whose feet they could learn.†   (source)
  • He could walk across hot coals and make burning roses bloom in the air, but he could no more aspire to climb the fiery ladder than a common fisherman could hope to catch a kraken in his nets.†   (source)
  • It is of course noticeable that the individuals who express such scepticism invariably turn out to be the most mediocre of our profession — those who know they lack the ability to progress to any position of note and who aspire only to drag as many down to their own level as possible — and one is hardly tempted to take such opinions seriously.†   (source)
  • As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers-a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thou-sands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.†   (source)
  • Impossible to identify ("They don't carry the 'I'm a bad guy' flag," says one SEAL), these hard-line Taliban insurgents, foreign jihadists, aspiring terrorists, and good old-fashioned organized criminals all had the same goal: upset any attempts at regional (thus national) stability for either their own monetary gain or to accomplish Allah's will.†   (source)
  • At that time, a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African, the highest that a black man could aspire to.†   (source)
  • Thus I have come a long way and returned and boomeranged a long way from the point in society toward which I originally aspired.†   (source)
  • And one day I came across one of the oldest planes in the ranks, very weathered, with a nice piece of nose art that was faded and patchy and showed a young woman in a flouncy skirt and narrow halter and she was very tall, very blond, she had amazing legs and her hands were on her hips very sort of aspiring-pinup—you knew she didn't have quite the skill to bring it off—and her name was lettered under the painting and it was Long Tall Sally.†   (source)
  • He's not quite the economic powerhouse he aspires to be, but give him time.... He laughed, but Max was troubled as he stared out into the gloom.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • My teacher was insensitive to my black English' is an alibi that black youngsters can use forever to 'explain' why they did not aspire to excellence, and thus never learned to read—or to prepare for a decent life.†   (source)
  • Yet all human desire is sacred, and of God; to desire—to want—to aspire—thus shall the individual be saved; and surely in this is the salvation of the race.†   (source)
  • The brotherhood of DEVGRU SEALS is built upon a foundation of mutual respect, and just as Adam aspired to what he considered John's "genius"—academically and as a warrior—John aspired to Adam's ability to juggle and, in his opinion, master the apparently paradoxical roles of fierce warrior and loving husband and father.†   (source)
  • I aspire to be wicked.†   (source)
  • Henceforth, if one aspired to be considered a member of the Himalayan elite, eschewing bottled oxygen was mandatory.†   (source)
  • There are certain members of our profession who would have it that it ultimately makes little difference what sort of employer one serves; who believe that the sort of idealism prevalent amongst our generation — namely the notion that we butlers should aspire to serve those great gentlemen who further the cause of humanity — is just high-flown talk with no grounding in reality.†   (source)
  • So we're both aspiring.†   (source)
  • But now, when I looked in dismay at Allie, who was champing at the bit to get back to her oblivion; when I thought about whether Pennsatucky would be able to keep it together and prove herself the good mom that she aspired to be; when I worried about my many friends at Danbury whose health was crushed by hepatitis and HIV; and when I saw in the visiting room how addiction had torn apart the bonds between mothers and their children, I finally understood the true consequences of my own actions.†   (source)
  • Settling back, Lee decided she might as well try her routine out on him before she was in the middle of two hundred published and aspiring writers.†   (source)
  • They were supposed to be members of the professions toward which at various times I vaguely aspired myself, and even though they never seemed to see me I could never believe that they were really patients.†   (source)
  • A few of the Americans were acquaintances from Boston, like the aspiring young architect Charles Bulfinch.†   (source)
  • No. Drey's brother Ser Deziel Dalt had once aspired to marry her, but he was much too dutiful to go against his prince.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • By then it had become fashionable among alpine cognoscenti to denigrate Everest as a slag heap"—a peak lacking sufficient technical challenges or aesthetic appeal to be a worthy objective for a "serious" climber, which I desperately aspired to be.†   (source)
  • "If I were you, Johnnie, I'd just aspire as hard as I could in that direction," she said recklessly, her mischievous glance upon the flowing lines of Johnnie's young shoulders and throat.†   (source)
  • And of course, any butler who regards his vocation with pride, any butler who aspires at all to a 'dignity in keeping with his position', as the Hayes Society once put it, should never allow himself to be 'off duty' in the presence of others.†   (source)
  • The man who had admonished generations of aspiring Americans to "Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee" seemed but vaguely interested in the day-to-day operations of the commission.†   (source)
  • On the other side of the doors, on the other side of the corridor, Hunter stood with his editor, half listening to her comments on an interview she'd had with an aspiring writer.†   (source)
  • There is great social mobility, Americans traditionally aspiring to move up the social ladder and adopting, or at least seeing their children adopt, whatever language norms the new level requires.†   (source)
  • London coffeehouses, tav-erns, theaters, and concert halls surpassed anything of the kind elsewhere in the British empire, and for the young and aspiring, London remained the great magnet.†   (source)
  • Why shouldn't you aspire to it?†   (source)
  • The belief was that whoever aspired to become the chief of a tribe, or even a warlord, should be willing to endure more pain than anyone else for the sake of his or her people.†   (source)
  • John Quincy had lately distinguished himself with a series of newspaper essays denouncing Citizen Genet and seemed well launched as an attorney in Boston, if still unresolved about aspiring to a public career.†   (source)
  • "Oh, but Mrs. Hexter," murmured the mortified Miss Sessions, glancing uneasily toward the mill-girl contingent which was listening eagerly, and then at the speaker of the day, "I am sure Mrs. Archbold will agree with me that it would be a gross, material idea to aspire after blouses and such-like, when the poor child needs—er—other things so much more."†   (source)
  • "See here, Lydia," Mrs. Hexter remonstrated in crisp tones, "what's the matter with the girl's aspiring after a blouse like yours?†   (source)
  • Pushing, aspiring, he subscribed for and faithfully studied a mechanics' journal which continually urged upon its readers the profit of patenting small improvements on machinery already in use.†   (source)
  • She wanted to aspire.†   (source)
  • As Sophie herself implied, it would perhaps add gloss to her image if one could say that her realization of the hatred she bore toward her father not only coincided with but was motivated by her realization that he was an aspiring Jew-killer.†   (source)
  • At that time McGraw-Hill & Company (for such was my employer's name) lacked any literary éclat, having for so long and successfully purveyed its hulking works of technology that the small trade-book house in which I labored, and which aspired to the excellence of Scribner or Knopf, was considered something of a joke in the business.†   (source)
  • They were what we aspired to be.†   (source)
  • Even this youth, if his jacket could have been unbuttoned and his heart laid bare, would have been seen, as a distant adherent of the Barnacle family, already to aspire to a situation under Government.†   (source)
    aspire = hope to be successful
  • As if the aspiring city had become puffed up in the very ground on which it stood, the ground had so risen about Bleeding Heart Yard that you got into it down a flight of steps which formed no part of the original approach, and got out of it by a low gateway into a maze of shabby streets, which went about and about, tortuously ascending to the level again.†   (source)
    aspiring = hoping to be successful
  • As he walked up and down, affably accommodating his step to the shuffle of his brother, not proud in his superiority, but considerate of that poor creature, bearing with him, and breathing toleration of his infirmities in every little puff of smoke that issued from his lips and aspired to get over the spiked wall, he was a sight to wonder at.†   (source)
    aspired = hoped to be successful
  • Aspiring and graceful female novelists this way!†   (source)
  • Mandatory reading for anyone aspiring to the title of intellectual.†   (source)
  • He told me that he had been a missionary in Tientsin "before aspiring to become a Sinologist."†   (source)
  • He was bemused by the very grandeur of the position to which he aspired.†   (source)
  • We must aspire beyond ourselves toward that high and fearful vision.†   (source)
  • Let us aspire to no virtue which cannot be shared.†   (source)
  • You must aspire to give the proper artistic expression to his wishes.†   (source)
  • Whatever made you think that I aspired to be dangerous, Mrs. Gillespie?†   (source)
  • There seemed to be a great many aspiring to that title.†   (source)
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