It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Gambling is the very embodiment of greed. Greed is its raison d'etre. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
I often feel my raison d'etre is to hold people to account. To bring authenticity and objectivity to the world of sport. — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
“Never forget these words: Every living creature on earth has its raison d'être.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Facts and information are the nourishment, the lifeblood, the raison d'etre, and also the bane and despair of librarians and researchers.” — Kee Malesky Copy Share Image
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre. — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Trying to demonstrate good leadership was not our raison d'etre. We're still just trying to make a comedy. — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience. — J. L. Carr Copy Share Image
“I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the… — Catherine Jones Copy Share Image
“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
“That was what made Vincent so perfect. His raison d'être. He was feminine to the point of being non-threatening, and masculine enough… — Nicole Castle Copy Share Image
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“For it is clear immediately: human life as such is a defeat. All we can do in the face of that ineluctable… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You have to look at the fundamental raison d'être of the business - what is it doing? What's the nature of the… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The eternal raison d'etre of America is in its being the "sweet land of liberty". Should a land so dreamed into existence,… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
“The tragic irony of modern anti-fascism is that the more successful it is, the more its raison d'etre is called into question.… — Mark Bray Copy Share Image
“If you read this, read it for that reason that Lestat is talking again, that he is frightened, that he is searching… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
“America stands before the world as an impetuous void, a fatality without substance. Nothing prepared her for hegemony; yet she tends toward… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“If I know the classical psychological theories well enough to pass my comps and can reformulate them in ways that can impress… — Stephen Muse Copy Share Image
“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The travels to discovery my heritage revealed to me that the South might not be a place so much as it is… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“The horsewife! The very basebone of the American plethora! The horsewife! Without whom the entire structure of civilian life would crumble! Without… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Verticality is ensured by the polarity of cellar and attic, the marks of which are so deep that, in a way, they… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The raison d'être for teaching and learning music is to create a lifelong love for it and an ability to engage with… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
Netanyahu's raison d'etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I… — Naftali Bennett Copy Share Image
“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être .]” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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