"The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence."
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"Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money"
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"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
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"A mind always hopeful, confident, courageous, and determined on its set purpose, and keeping itself to that purpose, attracts to itself out of the elements things and powers favourable to that purpose."
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"To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union."
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"We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything."
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"For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society"
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"Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun."
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"Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you"
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"There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation."
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"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
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"our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are."
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"The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia."
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"Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is."
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"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt."
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"The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others."
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"Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment."
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"I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.""
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"Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose."
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