Purpose Quotes
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You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country.
William Samuel Johnson
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What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
Alice Steinbach
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We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
Kami Garcia
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English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.
Willard Gaylin
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Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded.
Alfred Binet
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Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.
Bernard Brodie
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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The purpose of the capital formation presentations and roundtable discussions is to create a dialogue with business leaders, economic development organizations, business incubators, and community leaders to promote investment in Montana and support businesses as they start up and/or grow their existing operations.
Matt Rosendale
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All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.
Artie Lange
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We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose to improving people's lives through innovation.
Frans van Houten
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In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.
Heather Donahue
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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].
Immanuel Kant
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God's purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship, we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God.
J. B. Torrance
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
D. H. Lawrence
