"I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?"
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"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity."
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"The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost."
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"Signals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator"
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"The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both."
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"If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear."
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"I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices."
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"Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you."
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"Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?"
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"The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle."
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"Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. [...] What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?"
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"To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life."
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"Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives."
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"The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught and to let them know that there were others who shared this skepticism."
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"A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement."
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"The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects."
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"It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want."
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"They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose."
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"Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose."
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"There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do."
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