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Purpose Quotes
"One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so."
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"To be prosperous you must discover your gifting's, potentials and talents."
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"What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction."
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"I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you."
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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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"It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next."
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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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"Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose."
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"But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of."
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"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."
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"We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth."
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"The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers."
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"I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately."
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"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
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"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."
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"So the way to control your life is this; every minute you live, maybe you are in church; ask yourself "why am I here? What product am I producing by being here?" I know most Christians just go to church like dummies."
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"God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose."
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"We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer."
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"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
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"The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose."
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"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."
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"The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for."
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"Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree."
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"The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into 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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"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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"We can't fully encompass our motivational and inspirational awareness without fully understanding our purpose in life."
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"Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory."
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"Set your mark on humanity by being your own unique self and doing the things that make your heart shine. With such passion, you can make an impact on the world."
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"The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven."
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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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