You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
It kills the American spirit of dreaming--who is going to aspire to be despised?
How can such a puny manufacturing base ever aspire to close such a gaping deficit?
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For the last part though, we can aspire to even better with rigorous sustainable investment processes.
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It will never get us the job of our dreams or the lifestyle we aspire to.
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If you are rich or if you aspire to be, these may be disturbing sentiments.
It's not easy for women who aspire to be architects to find female role models.
It's a sensible compromise, the kind that's made by couples who aspire to remain happily married.
We also aspire to offer the INTIX solution through the SWIFT Cloud, to the SWIFT community.
Even so, Lynn said she didn't always aspire to a life on the stage.
They are nice, if unspectacular, attributes for a ruler or a high priest to aspire to.
You should aspire to be your neighborhood's "best of breed, " not a one-of-a-kind mutt.
"Mike Mayo is a symbol of all that we aspire to be, " he says.
Heads nodded when I asked whether they actually aspire to be the Starbucks of juice companies.
They want to wear the same brands as the people they aspire to be.
"Egypt will achieve a state of law and order that we all aspire to, " he said.
The strategy unit says key UK fish stocks should aspire to achieve MSC certification by 2015.
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But Mr Weld cannot aspire to any higher elected office than governor of Massachusetts.
It is important to reassure Americans that Muslim Americans do not aspire to this.
That's what I aspire to do, and if I even come close I'd be happy.
We aspire to a life free from long commutes, petty office politics, bosses, and expense reports.
Many of them were wearing Harris Tweed and every one of them would aspire to.
True parity, which the NFL seems to aspire to, is unnerving, like guerilla warfare.
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They won't have to stop teaching their children to aspire to become suicide bombers.
This means the talented and ambitious can aspire to only limited reward, and changing careers is difficult.
Or, of course, you could stay where you are--and aspire to hire your own caretaker one day.
Indeed, like his sometime rival George Soros, he appears to aspire to the role of worldly philosopher.
When you begin to act with the courage you aspire to have, you build more of it.
All of the ten countries that aspire to finish negotiations next year have big hurdles to jump.
But very few Americans with high school diplomas aspire to careers as busboys or home health aides.
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