"You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better."
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"There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom."
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"My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best."
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"The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others."
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"A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe."
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"In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable."
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"I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally"
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"Don't use your film for ugly purpose."
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"The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state"
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"There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success."
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"Wake up every morning thankful for everything that God gave you, and make your passion your purpose in life."
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"The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn"
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"Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads."
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"For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life."
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"Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose"
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"Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense."
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"Purpose is stronger than object."
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"I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in."
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"I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found."
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"Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved."
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