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• Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

  John F. Kerry

  Heart, America, Challenges

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

  Stanley Fish

  Education, Two Sides, Three

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• Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

  Richard Bach

  Fighting, Ideas, Perfection

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

  George F. Kennan

  Defense, Nuclear, Bombs

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• I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Book, Games, Chess

  José Raúl Capablanca (1920). “My Chess Career”

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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, Common Purpose

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• There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

  Samuel Johnson

  Determination, Focus, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.205

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• Don't focus on the problem, focus on the PURPOSE.

  Bo Sanchez

  Focus, Problem

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• It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Maturity, Hands, Growth

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.

  David Cortright

  Military, Mean, Government

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• The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  War, Goal, Essentials

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• In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies at the outbreak of the Great War, but it must, in their honour and fairness to their memories, be said that they were motivated by the highest purpose, and died in their tens of thousands in Flanders and Gallipoli, believing that they were giving their lives in the cause of human liberty everywhere, including Ireland.

  Sean Lemass

  Memories, War, Believe

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• Passion is the model of all my actions.

  Philippe Petit

  Life, Passion, Action

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• The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

  David Viscott

  Life, Giving, Meaning Of Life

  David Viscott (2003). “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

  Richard Halverson

  Christian, Fashion, Religion

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• The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

  Samuel Johnson

  Reading, Writing, Criticism

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works”, p.569

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• Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!

  Mark Lepper

  Anticipation, Study, Seven

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• Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspiring, Ambition, Achievement

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• Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

  Spiros Zodhiates

  Life, Real, Perspective

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• The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Motivational, Men, Giving

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• There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Ambition, History, Office

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• You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Forever

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• The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

  Theodore Levitt

  Clever, Engineering, Wizardry

  Theodore Levitt (1986). “Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Make sure that the career you choose is one you enjoy. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, it will be difficult to give the extra time, effort, and devotion it takes to be a success. If it is a career that you find fun and enjoyable, then you will do whatever it takes. You will give freely of your time and effort and you will not feel that you are making a sacrifice in order to be a success.

  Kathy Whitworth

  Fun, Sacrifice, Order

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• ...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Flesh, Feeding

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Les Confidences”, p.60

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