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aimed at

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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. Upton Sinclair

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. Pierre Corneille

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Herbert Simon

regulation is useful and proper, when aimed at the prevention of fraud or contrivance, manifestly injurious to other kinds of production, or to the public safety, and not at prescribing the nature of the products and the methods of fabrication. Jean-Baptiste Say

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

The spit aimed at the sky comes back to one. Japanese Proverb

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