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• The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Abandoned, Chiefs

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• Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Self, Unwavering Faith, Rough Times

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• The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every thing that can oppose or attack him within the sphere of mortality-who will press toward his object while death is impending over him-who would retain his purpose unshaken amidst the ruins of the world.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Men, Sublime, Energy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 239, 1895.

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• People are valuable regardless of the color of their skin. You can be open about it and talk about it. You don't have to pretend that you are not different, but you can learn about those differences God didn't say, 'Ooh, I made you brown on accident.' He made them that color on purpose. And if you do not have friendships with other races, then ask God to bring you some. He will.

  Nicole C. Mullen

  Race, Color, Differences

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• I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

  Maria Callas

  Giving, House, Feelings

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• Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience.

  Leonard Rose

  Play, People, Important

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• A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within this definition there can be no vain ornamentation or superfluity, but the part of beauty is nonetheless great-in ideal choice of material, in visual refinement, and in the rational elegance of things intended for use.

  Eliot Noyes

  Organization, Choices, Design

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• In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.

  Cass Sunstein

  Sports, Fun, Hunting

  "Glenn Beck's Favorite Congressman Takes On Cass Sunstein, Glenn Beck's Most Hated Foe". politicalcorrection.org. May 25, 2011.

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• There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Wise, Elbows, World

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1818). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier].”, p.332

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• My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

  Emily Levine

  Grandmother, People, Olympics

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• It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees of God are a vast ocean, into which many possibly have curiously pried to their own horror and despair; but few or none have ever pried into them to their own profit and satisfaction.

  Thomas Boston

  Ocean, Despair, Looks

  Thomas Boston (1812). “An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, with Respect to Faith and Practice, Upon the Plan of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, Comprehending a Complete Body of Divinity”, p.177

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• The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places. It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.

  William Torrey Harris

  School, Dark, Self

  "The Philosophy of Education". Book by William Torrey Harris, 1889.

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• It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

  Peter Greenaway

  Serving

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Gestures, Bows, Force

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.11, A&C Black

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• Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Steps, Phrases, Use

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• Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Technology, Use, New Technology

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• The purpose of God's blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing.

  Brian Houston

  Blessed, Blessing, Impact

  Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.20, Hillsong Music Australia

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• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Men, Self Worth, Law

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• You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

  Bob Proctor

  Reason

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• The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.

  Geneen Roth

  Healing, Broken, Dying

  Geneen Roth (1991). “When food is love: exploring the relationship between eating and intimacy”, E P Dutton

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• It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

  Alan Cohen

  Selfish, Heart, Joy

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• Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.

  Steve Denning

  Sight, Stories, Use

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• I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.

  R. J. Anderson

  Unique, Ideas, Design

  R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.290, Carolrhoda Lab

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• I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future. Its purpose ought to be to illuminate the road, to point out obstacles and potential pitfalls and so assist management to tailor events and to bend them in a desired direction. Forecasting should be used as a device to put both problems and opportunities into perspective. It is a management tool, but it can never be a substitute for strategy, nor should it ever be used as the primary basis for portfolio investment decisions.

  Peter Cundill

  Thinking, Intelligent, Opportunity

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