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776 Purposes quotes by 622 unique authors
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Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every…
— Corey Taylor
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Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
— Irwin Shaw
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Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle…
— John Dewey
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What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with…
— Hugh Miller
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When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to…
— Arthur Curley
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As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.
— Andy Stanley
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Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes ...
— Kenneth Arrow
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I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human…
— Mary Robinson
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly…
— Nikola Tesla
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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots…
— Robert Walpole
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The Lord is in control. He knows the end from the beginning. He has given us adequate instruction that, if followed, will see us safely…
— M. Russell Ballard
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If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can…
— John G. Lake
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Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name…
— Noah Webster
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I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply…
— George Washington
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It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes,…
— Joseph Story
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The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave…
— Herbert Croly
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