"The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things."
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"Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer."
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"In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study."
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"The purpose firm is equal to the deed"
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"Luck is tenacity of purpose."
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"My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?"
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"There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim."
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"We're wanting you to come to the place where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately. Where you are guiding your thoughts on purpose, where you are the creator of your own experience. Because you are the manager of your own thought"
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"The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient."
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"The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State."
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"Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal."
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"[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge."
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"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs."
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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
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"For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility."
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"My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with."
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"Winners are people with definite purpose in life."
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"The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day."
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"I define success as a deep sense of peace, and we find the most peace when we live out our true calling and fulfill the purpose we were created for. History is filled with examples of people who had an abundance of material possessions but no peace because no matter how much stuff you have, there's not enough money in the world to fill the hole in your soul."
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"I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God."
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