"In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose."
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"It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman."
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"Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make."
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"Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live."
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"I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time."
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"large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us."
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"Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose."
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"The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself."
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"For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable."
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"The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents."
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"Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive."
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"Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others."
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"The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God."
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"There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!"
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"Everything in the universe has a purpose."
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"If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission."
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"War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war."
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"Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose."
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"Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all."
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"The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed."
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