"At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else."
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"The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life."
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"It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?"
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"A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence."
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"Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you"
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"The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes."
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"The term "globalization," like most terms of public discourse, has two meanings: its literal meaning, and a technical sense used for doctrinal purposes. In its literal sense, "globalization" means international integration. Its strongest proponents since its origins have been the workers movements and the left , which is why unions are called "internationals", and the strongest proponents today are those who meet annually in the World Social Forum and its many regional offshoots."
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"Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's the highest in the industrial world by far. New and onerous crime bills are being passed to deal with this superfluous population."
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"Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language."
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"Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others."
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"You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say."
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"The purpose of life is to remember."
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"To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven."
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"There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled."
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"When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive."
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"Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death."
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"The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC."
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"A purpose you impart is no longer your own."
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"Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it."
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"I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose."
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