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Purposes Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and…
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no…
- These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
More Purposes Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — 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… — 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 -… — Alfred Adler
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — 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… — 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… — 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… — James Buchan