Quotes with purpose

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  • Voltaire The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Robert Byrne The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Bill Watterson The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan A car for every purse and purpose.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Simone Weil A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Bob Harrington A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
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  • John Milton A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Antonin Scalia A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Peace Pilgrim A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A word too much always defeats its purpose.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • James Allen Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Graham Swift All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alanis Morissette And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Aristotle Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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