"In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made."
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"Problems are here in this world so that we can realize our purpose in this world."
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"Every little thing has a purpose, at the same time, it has no purpose because this whole thing is a game. It is the existence which is total, beyond purpose. So you can say, virtually there is no purpose. If at all you have to pin down to a purpose then the purpose of nature is to take you to the Source, is to remind you of the Source, connect you to your Source."
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"Life is given to each human being For a very special purpose. This secret each human being Must discover for himself."
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"If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose."
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"We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came."
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"A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make."
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"I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse."
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"Nothing, absolutely nothing, enters my life that isn't caused or allowed by God and filtered first through His loving hands for the purpose of making me more like Jesus."
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"I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price."
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"As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose."
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"The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual."
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"Another agency - the IRS - did not do as well under Republicans who control Congress. The IRS is largely flatlined in their spending, but they did get about 300 million more funding. But I can only be used to help people pay their taxes and answer questions. It can't be used for any other purpose."
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"The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer."
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"... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve."
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"The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose."
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"Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel."
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"They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean."
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"The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it."
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"Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect."
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