"When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity."
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"Every path serves a purpose."
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"I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write a story, I don't know the conclusion at all and I don't know what's going to happen next. If there is a murder case as the first thing, I don't know who the killer is. I write the book because I would like to find out. If I know who the killer is, there's no purpose to writing the story."
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"An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile."
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"That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it."
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"If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose."
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"A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose."
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"Every one is witty for his owne purpose."
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"I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless."
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"I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble."
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"The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will."
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"So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word."
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"Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?"
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"There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success."
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"I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending."
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"Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life."
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"There is undoubtedly much to learn about the social uses of language, for communication or for other purposes. But at present there is not much in the way of a theory of sociolinguistics, of social uses of languages, as far as I am aware."
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"What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit."
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"All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes."
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"It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about."
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