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• Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Facts, Action, Proposal

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• Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)

  Randy Alcorn

  Giving Up, Mean, Self

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• To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Strong, Fate, Men

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• Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.

  Otto Penzler

  Art, Book, People

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• The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

  Andy Stern

  Thinking, Focus, Unions

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• Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Enterprise, True Purpose, Customers

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• The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Struggle, Men, Light

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• We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Order, Quality, Beast

  Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, Broadview Press

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• Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

  Norman Rockwell

  Thinking, America, Typical

  "Fodor's New England". Book by Debbie Harmsen, p. 194, 2008.

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• Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.

  Josei Toda

  Destiny, Daily Activities, Enlightenment

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• Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Reality, Color, Political

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Sex appeal is not on purpose.

  Heather Locklear

  Sex, Appeals, Sex Appeal

  "Heather Locklear: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not the purpose of bureaucracies. It's to increase those things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cost, Care, Firsts

  "Mrs. Clinton Unveils Her New Socialist Health Care Program". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 17, 2007.

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• I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

  Kathy Mattea

  Fall, Together Again, Track

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• You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Should, Areas

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• The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical - all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

  Donald Watson

  Philosophy, Animal, Practice

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• The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving, Awakening, World

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• I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.

  James E. Faust

  Believe, Intelligence, Treasure

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• Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Men, Careers

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.

  Steven Gould

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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• They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that's used for purposes of cataracts?

  Snoop Dogg

  Weed, Hurt, Marijuana

  "Snoop Dogg: My Aroma Will Get Obama High And Convince Him To Legalize Weed" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. January 9, 2012.

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• It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

  Rumi

  Animal, Intelligent, Might

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• When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

  Christopher Lasch

  Symbolism, Feelings, Popular Song

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• The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Money, School, Principles

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