"I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose."
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"There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby."
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"Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life."
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"Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole; but one looked only for the general effect as produced by form, the other as produced by colour."
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"There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour."
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"Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty."
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"What I will say is that Naz and I are not together just because we like to hang out. The purpose is finding someone that you can spend the rest of your life with, for me anyways."
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"The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose."
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"This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose"
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"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience."
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"I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it."
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"The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet."
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"Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life."
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"Challenges arise to make us aware of our inner purpose."
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"My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me."
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"The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now"
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"He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it."
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"There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings."
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"The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers."
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"With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose."
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