Purposes Quotes
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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.
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Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
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Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.
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Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.
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... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.
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As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.
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I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.
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I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
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I see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends.
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Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.
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Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
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I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.
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He only needs me for certain purposes, otherwise it is not possible. This is idiocy.
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To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes.
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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.
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The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover God’s purposes for us and to make them our own.
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If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.
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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.
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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.
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How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?
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A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?
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It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
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Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
