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Purpose Quotes
"Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising."
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"All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted."
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"As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests."
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"God created you for His higher purpose and for your better good."
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"You were chosen by God to create the destiny of the nation and to lay a foundation for the generations to come."
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"If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."
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"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."
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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."
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"To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up."
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"Your purpose distinguishes you from others; not your talent, IQ, race, job, hobbies, or gender, as these are held in common with many others."
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"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."
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"I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train."
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"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
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"Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction."
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"Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors."
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"Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood."
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"Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee."
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"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it."
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"Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it."
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"Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle."
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"Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way."
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"I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
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"There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest."
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"During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines."
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"I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it."
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"I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose."
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"Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory."
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"When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose."
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"Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this."
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"The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified."
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"When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!"
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"The world is a stage where people come to play their own part and leave, your contribution to making the world a much better place matters."
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"The discovery of your life's purpose is your ultimate pathway to an extraordinary life. You were born an original, so quit conforming to the expectations of others."
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