Common Purpose Quotes - Page 2

• Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

  Gene Logsdon

  Dark, Skills, Common Sense

  Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle degree of instruction, calculated for the common purposes of life and such as should be desirable for all who were in easy circumstances. And 3d. an ultimate grade for teaching the sciences generally and in their highest degree... The expenses of [the elementary] schools should be borne by the inhabitants of the county, every one in proportion to his general tax-rate. This would throw on wealth the education of the poor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Teaching, School

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• We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Thinking, White

  South Carolina Democratic Primary Victory Speech, delivered 26 January 2008

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• People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service.

  Mitt Romney

  Differences, People, Different

  "To Largest Crowd Yet, Romney Speaks Of Faith". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. May 13, 2012.

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• The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.

  Ed Benguiat

  Art, Giving, Design

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• When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Fate, Men

  Address at the Yale Alumni Dinner, The Oxford Club, Brooklyn, New York, www.theodore-roosevelt.com. March 03, 1899.

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• We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

  Jane D. Hull

  Children, Giving, Working Together

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• The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Intelligent, Goal, Personality

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed.  All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.

  Adolf Hitler

  Social, Employers, Distinction

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• I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wonder, Used, Minutes

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Strong, Discipline, Feelings

  "Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living". Essay by Emma Goldman, 1936.

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• As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community. ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.

  Diane Dreher

  Wise, Team, Common Vision

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• Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

  Robert Winston

  Men, Odds, Giving

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.

  Richard L. Evans

  Character, Perfection, Understanding

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Goal, Firsts, Twenties

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• Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades.

  Ronald Reagan

  Bible, God, Country

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

  Lewis H. Lapham

  People, Wish, Kind

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.31, Verso

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• This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Government, Together

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• There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

  Diane Ravitch

  Running, Powerful, People

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, Dedication, Light

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Queens, Two, Years

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• Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Peace, Waiting, Together

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.307, Bantam

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• There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Memories, Ambition

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.

  Louis J. Halle

  Space, Views, Energy

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• We are delighted to work with the Republican National Committee to build a conservative Congressional majority in 2014. They have a keen understanding for the need to bring together sometimes divergent groups with the common purpose of resurrecting a Reagan-like conservative coalition that appeals to all Americans with a message of hope, opportunity and the chance to achieve the American Dream.

  Salvatore Russo

  Dream, Opportunity, Understanding

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