Purposes Quotes

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new… — Hannah Arendt
The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase… — Chester A. Arthur
Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring… — Antonio Banderas
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make… — Alfred Adler
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest… — Felix Adler
If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly.… — Halle Berry
Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your… — Sara Blakely
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. — Aesop
I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes. — Jo Brand
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. — Louis D. Brandeis
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe… — James Buchan
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that… — George W. Bush
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
Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes. — Jeb Bush
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. — Joseph Butler
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being… — Joseph Campbell
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the… — Joseph Campbell
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. — Carl von Clausewitz
When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what… — Neil Abercrombie

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