Misuse… or changing use of “aspire”

In Australia, the current conservative government and media have generated the term “aspirational class” referring I gather to “blue collar” and self-employed tradespeople who want to do better.
It seems to me that aspirational, now has some negative connotations about sweaty less worthy working class people wanting more of goods and services such as the McMansions [...]

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Aphorisms that we go by

Some of my favourite aphorisms (short pithy statements) are 
Time is short and the water is rising.
Let us change the world together, while we still have one
Life is not a dress rehearsal, you only live it once.
Faint heart never won fair lady
Make the world a better place for having lived in it.

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