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Purpose Quotes
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. - John Milton Quotes
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. - Quentin Crisp Quotes
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. - Joseph Lancaster Quotes
The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife. - Terrence Howard Quotes
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraqs weapons of mass destruction program. - William J Clinton Quotes
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour. - Thomas Clarkson Quotes
I think were much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand theres another purpose to it. - Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. - Louis Vermeil Quotes
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. - Muhammed Iqbal Quotes
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. - Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. - Dave Barry Quotes
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. - Albert Schweitzer Quotes
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. - Sidney Sheldon Quotes
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out governments purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And Im going to take the country in an opposite direction than hes taking it. - Dennis Kucinich Quotes
You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another. - James Levine Quotes
Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. - George Eliot Quotes
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. - Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again. - Alanis Morissette Quotes
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt. - Moliere Quotes
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. - Harold Rosenberg Quotes
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. - Siegfried Sassoon Quotes
Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning. - Jeane Dixon Quotes
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four, of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. - Jim Trelease Quotes
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. - Orson Welles Quotes
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. - Clifford D Simak Quotes
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. - Sargent Shriver Quotes
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. - Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
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