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Purpose Quotes
"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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"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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"We can't fully encompass our motivational and inspirational awareness without fully understanding our purpose in life."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want."
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"Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose."
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"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."
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"Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning."
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"Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose."
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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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"Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose."
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"Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: 'He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How."
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"Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you, choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose.Eragon: But what can I do?Saphira: The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you."
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"Do not be discourage by people who reject your true purpose. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done with the mission! Don't ever be down by the susurrant call of the masses to stop, halt or abort your true purpose when you are convinced within your innermost man of how true your purpose is. A true purpose is mostly rejected, spat upon and seen as an unworthy cause by the masses until they come to a later realization of how true it is and then they accept, celebrate and enjoy it."
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"The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment."
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"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation."
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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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"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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"The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery."
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"A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation."
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"If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose."
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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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"Flashing ur light in sunshine fails bcos ur light is needed elsewhere darker."
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"Through being fired I was given the perfect circumstances to finally answer my calling and live my dream, and I remain grateful to this day for that television network firing me. Without them, I would have refused the call to follow my dream, and I would have missed living the most exciting and fulfilling journey of my life."
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"What if all I ever wanted out of everything I have been chasing was not the thing itself but to be happy, to feel good?Heidi C."
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"I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose."
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"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life."
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"To live without purpose is to drift, but to live with purpose is to sail straight to your destination."
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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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