Purpose Quotes - Page 13

• Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Art, Serious

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• Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

  Brian Kernighan

  Trying, Defeat, Programming

  Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill

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• The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

  Michael Eisner

  Technology, Giving, Creative

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• The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

  Macklemore

  Stuff, Fame, Sole

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

  David Hackett Fischer

  War, Fighting, Winning

  David Hackett Fischer (2006). “Washington's Crossing”, p.370, Oxford University Press

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• The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

  Plato

  Education, Giving, Perfection

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• If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

  Misty Upham

  Beauty, Men, Humanity

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• He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

  Clark Kerr

  College, Ideas, Safe

  "The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".

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• The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Greed, Political

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• It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Rely Upon, Evil

  Charles Hodge (1860). “An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.340

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• The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.

  John Ralston Saul

  Winning, Power, Age

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

  Max Stirner

  Leadership, Might, Fine Things

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

  Richard DuFour

  Inspirational, Teaching, School

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• Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our own righteousness instead of the Lord's (D&C 1:16). After all, Lucifer was willing to work very hard, but conditionally in his own way and for his own purposes.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Time, Work

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• TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Temptation, Impulse, Commit

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.217, 谷月社

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• There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest

  Ari Fleischer

  Feet, Mountain, Gathering

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• Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

  Allen Weinstein

  Goal, Bitter, Disputes

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• True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

  Rita Ora

  Believe, Fighting, Knowing Who You Are

  "Rita Ora Gives GLAM4GOOD Her Definition of Beauty, and Tells What She Wears for Good Luck" by Mary Alice Stephenson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2014.

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• Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and exploited for his purposes the powerful socialist traditions of Germany. The adjectives 'socialist' and 'worker' in the official name of Hitler's party ('The Nationalist-Socialist German Workers' Party') had not merely propagandistic value... On one occasion, in the midst of World War II, Hitler even declared that 'basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.'

  Richard Pipes

  Powerful, War, Party

  "Property and Freedom". Book by Richard Pipes, 1999.

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• The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Strong, War, Long

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• The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Winning, Law, Knowing

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• In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Leader, Great Leader, Intensity

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• At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater.Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Years, Effort

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• Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

  Stephen Dunn

  Answers, Links, Wise Words

  Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

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