Their Purpose Quotes
71 quotes by 67 authors
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not…
— Sitting Bull
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The team exists to accomplish a result. The community exists to support its members while they fulfill their purpose. . . . When partnerships, management…
— Peter Gibb
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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
— Blaise Pascal
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He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to…
— Epictetus
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's…
— William Shenstone
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There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level…
— H. L. Mencken
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Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is...
— Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what…
— Horace
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
— Michelangelo
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The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The…
— Orison Swett Marden
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They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong,…
— Gautama Buddha
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If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and…
— William Bartram
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I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was…
— David Levithan
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True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to…
— Rita Ora
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Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why…
— Valerie Solanas
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Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've…
— Vincent Price
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
— H. L. Mencken
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As in nature. and in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones, their lustre. The more…
— Thomas Guthrie
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However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.
— Richard Halverson
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