Purposes Quotes
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I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.
Daniel Beaty
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I see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends.
Edward L. Morse
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He only needs me for certain purposes, otherwise it is not possible. This is idiocy.
Eva Braun
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The foreword to the landmark 1980 DSM-III was appropriately modest and acknowledged that this diagnostic system was imprecise—so imprecise that it never should be used for forensic or insurance purposes.
As we will see, that modesty was tragically short-lived.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
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My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.
Alexander Agassiz
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.
Bertram Brockhouse
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The move away from tape as a primary means of restoring data, and using tape for archiving purposes, we think is going to become very broad in the industry.
Bob Muglia
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I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Charles Lichenstein
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Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Coco Chanel
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When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.
Arthur Curley
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To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes.
Sarah Brady
