"We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base"
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"I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known."
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"Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'"
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"Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings."
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"We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one."
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"[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content."
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