"Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself."
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"Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here"
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"All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer"
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"Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be."
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"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin."
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"IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS."
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"What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!"
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"[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected."
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"Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions."
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"Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating."
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"There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose."
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"Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works."
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"It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement."
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"If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it."
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"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."
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"Let no act be done without purpose."
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"From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason."
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"Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well."
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"The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present."
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"Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses of the middle class is the banishment of aristocratic depression, because it's kind of this obsession with quotidian detail that pushes these larger questions away."
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