"All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite."
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"That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance."
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"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose."
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"If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent."
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"Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil."
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"The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die."
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"It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved."
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"Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others."
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"Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose."
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"When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories."
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"Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither."
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"And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."
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"What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?"
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"Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being."
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"Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, colour, social status or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy"
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"Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives."
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"On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord."
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"The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen."
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"Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place."
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"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity."
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