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• We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Needs, Next, Return

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Desire, Would Be

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.27, Penguin

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• The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Character, Proud

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.25, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

  Paul Erdos

  Life Is, Mathematics, Conjecture

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• My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

  Anthony Trollope

  Book, Writing, Men

  Anthony Trollope, David Skilton (1996). “An autobiography”, Penguin Group USA

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• This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

  John L. Lewis

  Heart, Organization, Support

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being after the 2nd World War, and they're now failing us ever more catastropically. Wild Law shows just how radical we now need to be in creating new institutions that are genuinely 'fit for purpose' in the 21st Century.

  Jonathon Porritt

  War, Thinking, Law

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• The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Taoism, Benevolence

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• I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Today, Dogmatic

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter. I don't really have that sort of strong gender identity-I identify as what I am. The fact that people are using it for creative or marketing purposes, it's just kind of like having a skill and using it to earn money.

  Andrej Pejic

  Strong, Makeup, Boys

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• The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

  Hal Boyle

  Party, Simple, Cocktails

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• For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Integrity, Humble, White

  "Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, together with his complete poems and speeches edited by Mrs John Boyle O'Reilly" by James Jeffrey Roche, New York, (p. 195), 1891.

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• Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, 'It's okay, I'm from New Jersey.' I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in 'Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.'

  Paul Rudnick

  Thinking, Feet, Wife

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Writing, Triumph, Literature

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• Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

  Kate Smith

  War, Voice, Ties

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• The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Nature, Chaos, Conscious

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

  C.P. Snow

  Two, Culture, Maps

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you pursue becomes your purpose.

  Tommy Tenney

  Impress, Pursue

  Tommy Tenney (2004). “Finding Favor With the King: Preparing For Your Moment in His Presence”, p.24, Baker Books

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• On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Hands, Two, Creative

  "Essays with a Purpose".

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• Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul’s unique purpose and to fill the place in the world that only you can fill, making the contribution that only you can make.

  Rod Stryker

  Unique, Long, Soul

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• The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Joy, Mind, Helping

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• The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Aggravation, Two

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• Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

  David F. Wells

  Evil, Sovereignty, Purpose Of God

  Wells, David F. (2017). “The Courage to Be Protestant, 2nd ed.”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

  Christopher Dodd

  Bridges, America, Use

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• There’s a time and purpose for being lost. If you don’t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Judging, Lost, Ifs

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