"But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever."
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"We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose, and that we are not going to end here, we are going to proceed somewhere else, and also that we didn't begin here, that we began somewhere else and all that living, all that elaborate account of our presence seems to be quite basic to our nature and so this is what literacy taps into."
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"Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds."
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"The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis."
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"From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other."
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"The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame."
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"Nature creates nothing without a purpose."
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"Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means."
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"The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed."
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"The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you"
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"Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian."
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"It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them."
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"I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all."
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"The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?"
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"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
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"Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will."
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"So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes."
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"The purpose of life is life."
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"You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story."
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"The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left."
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