Own Purposes Quotes

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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. — Aesop
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world,… — George W. Bush
No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws of God will… — Richard G. Scott
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody elseÂ¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia.… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can… — John Dewey
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not… — George Washington
This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual.… — Rajneesh
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… — Sarah Fielding
I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply… — Whitley Strieber
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth,… — Joe Abercrombie
My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for… — George H. W. Bush
Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our… — Neal A. Maxwell
So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in… — Fred Thompson
Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are… — Jack D. Forbes
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their… — Christopher Lasch
The Almighty has His own purposes. — Abraham Lincoln
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention… — Friedrich List
Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the… — Marcus Aurelius
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. — Christopher Lasch

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