"The highest purpose in this universe is the creation of an effect."
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"When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed."
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"We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends."
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"I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” “Just thought you’d come nosing around, did you?” Harry shouted. He knew that Ron had no idea what he’d walked in on, knew he hadn’t done it on purpose, but he didn’t care — at this moment he hated everything about Ron, right down to the several inches of bare ankle showing beneath his pajama trousers."
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"Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive."
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"The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit."
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"A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution."
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"Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'"
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"My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am."
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"The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God."
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"The highest benevolence acts without purpose."
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"I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place."
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"That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
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"One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot."
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"If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be."
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"People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another."
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"If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?"
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"Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you."
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"You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here"
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"The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out."
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