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- Nov 07, 2020
Purpose Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It never occurred to me that being a stunt girl would get me recognized in any way, because the whole purpose of a stunt person is to not be known.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given my belief that there is a divine purpose for my father's life on this planet, given the way I was raised, it's real hard to get angry. I get that from my daddy.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
- Nov 07, 2020
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations... In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.
- Fishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- Investigation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.
- Nov 07, 2020
All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
- Defendant
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn't come here to specifically be a role model or anything.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!
- Exterminate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think purpose is the most important thing because once you understand that, everything else becomes easy.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned guitar solely for the purpose of meeting women. I'd heard it's a great lady-catcher.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody actually knows what the narrative was.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the people who are given these Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them. But for the Ramones, it really was a symbolic gesture of, 'Yes, you guys are special and are important to rock n' roll.' So in that sense, the Roll Hall of Fame served its purpose.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a compassionate person, so if a product is 15 percent more than what I typically pay, and I see the purpose, I'll foster that kind of sustainability for the farmers/fishers.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.
- Priorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of the military is to close with and destroy the enemy on behalf of our national security priorities.
- Nov 07, 2020
U.S. national security interests are best served when the United Nations effectively fulfills this core purpose.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does Obama create confusion on purpose?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.
- Nov 07, 2020
The entire purpose of the State of the Union Address is for the president to outline where we stand as a nation.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
- Being Used
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very task-oriented. The idea of constantly pursuing something with purpose helps me to stay focused.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people look for and demand purpose in their work, it impacts businesses, communities, and the economy.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.
- Criterion
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working in network news is not a solitary pursuit; it is the ultimate 'team sport,' in which success is derived from the collective performances of remarkable people united in purpose and dedication.
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the purpose of cinema is to entertain. The so-called geniuses may have given new meanings to it, but for those who developed cinema, the aim was to entertain.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is... a greater sense of divine purpose when we're playing at all-Christian rock shows. In clubs or bars, we know that the audience primarily came to see a show, so we try not to get preachy and instead let the music do most of the talking.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020