Purpose Quotes
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The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: It made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse.
Neal Stephenson
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Do not for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect.
William Shakespeare
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Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.
Charles Edison
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Art thy not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it? Just as if the eye demanded recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose... so also is man formed by nature to acts of benevolence.
Marcus Aurelius
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Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.
Kenneth R. Miller
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
Lou Holtz
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Everyone really does have a place and a purpose and a need.
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
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Everything that I do is with a purpose and intent of wanting to make a difference.
Katrina Adams
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I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?
Og Mandino
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To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?
Anne Parillaud
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You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
Eckhart Tolle
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When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.
Oprah Winfrey
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Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.
Nelson Mandela
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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
Robert Frost
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The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.
Kimbal Musk
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The purpose of teaching individualism, then, is not to make individualists but to find them. Rather, to help them find themselves. If a student takes readily to such values as the primacy of the individual, the free market place, or the immorality of taxation, he is an individualist; if he swallows hard, he must be counted a recruit for the other side.
Frank Chodorov
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I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.
Will Compton
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My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.
Benton MacKaye
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The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler.
Fritz Todt
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We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain meanings or definitions. But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes.
I. A. Richards
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If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
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A soul living in tune with its internal purpose is bound to create utter magic.
Drew Chadwick Emblem3
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If we can recycle a valuable product that serves an important purpose - and create jobs in the process - then why wouldn't we? Well, that's exactly what fly ash offers.
Matt Rosendale