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The purpose of studying history is not to deride human action, nor to weep over it or to hate it, but to understand it. And hopefully then to learn from it as we contemplate our future.
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The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
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The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Speech Londen, 24 June 1872 -
The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
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The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
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The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
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The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
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The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
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