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  • Like the 1,800 regular employees of the company, they were living next to the factory in Broad Town housing and eating three meals a day, free, in the company cafeteria, in a building with the English name Aspiration Theater.

    Mr. Zhang Builds His Dream Town 2007

  • Like the 1,800 regular employees of the company, they were living next to the factory in Broad Town housing and eating three meals a day, free, in the company cafeteria, in a building with the English name Aspiration Theater.

    Mr. Zhang Builds His Dream Town 2007

  • Like the 1,800 regular employees of the company, they were living next to the factory in Broad Town housing and eating three meals a day, free, in the company cafeteria, in a building with the English name Aspiration Theater.

    Mr. Zhang Builds His Dream Town 2007

  • Last week, as Mr. Chinmoy prepared to lift Jeff Goldblum at the tennis court, which his disciples call Aspiration Ground, the verdant, sun-dappled grove of lush gardens, abundant flowers and burbling ponds and fountains seemed a universe apart from New York City.

    They’re Not Heavy; They’re His People 2004

  • Aspiration occurs when acidified contents from the stomach are regurgitated into the mouth and then fall into the windpipe.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • They're at the core of the ethical foundation many of us have inherited, that fusion of post-Confucian philosophy and immigrant ethos the media often calls Aspiration tempered with pragmatism.

    Sardonic Sistah Says 2008

  • They're at the core of the ethical foundation many of us have inherited, that fusion of post-Confucian philosophy and immigrant ethos the media often calls Aspiration tempered with pragmatism.

    Sardonic Sistah Says 2008

  • "Aspiration," also taken from young Prinsep (1866), is a picture of a young man in the dawn of life's battle, who, wishing to be a standard-bearer, looks out across the plain.

    Watts (1817-1904) William Loftus Hare

  • A large-scale sculptural tableau, "Aspiration", is being constructed for placement along Highway #11 in Trenton.

    WDEF News 12 - 2009

  • From every scaffold where a palace ceiling was being decorated with its fresco, from every bottega where the children of the poor learned to grind and to mingle the colours, from every cell where some solitary monk studied to produce an offering to the glory of his God, from every nook and corner where the youths gathered in the streets to see some Nunziata or Ecce Homo lifted to its niche in the city wall, from every smallest and most hidden home of art -- from the nest under the eaves as well as from the cloud-reaching temples, -- there went out amidst the multitudes an ever-flowing, ever-pellucid stream of light, from that Aspiration which is in itself Inspiration.

    Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

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