Quotes with purposes

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  • Jean Baudrillard We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Arlen Specter We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Bart Chilton We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
    Bart Chilton
    American civil servant, consultant and author (1960 - 2019)
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  • Archibald Macleish What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Walter Lippmann What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Benjamin Hoadly Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
    Sermon before the King of England, 31 March 1717
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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