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A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of… — Warren G. Bennis
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had… — Archibald MacLeish
If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of… — William E. Gladstone
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
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. — Charles Lamb
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a… — Walter Lippmann
The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes,… — Unknown Author
Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and… — Peter Watts
Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie so much. Maybe… — Jared Leto
I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's… — Dolly Parton
The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me — Mark Harmon
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or… — Amber Valletta
True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise… — D. Todd Christofferson
Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as… — Marva Dawn
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
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke… — Thomas a Kempis
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make… — Frederic Bastiat
Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically… — Thomas Jefferson
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. — Alexander Hamilton
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it… — Immanuel Kant
It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and… — James Madison

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