"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

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"If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it."

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"Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent."

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"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."

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"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."

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"Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it."

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"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Cecil Beaton, English Photographer

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"The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia."

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"Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose."

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