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• In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

  Alfred Marshall

  Use, May, Want

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Order, Goal, Priorities

  Shigeo Shingo (1988). “Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement”, p.94, CRC Press

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• The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

  Scott Turow

  Narrative, Ambiguity, Complexity

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.

  M. R. James

  Writing, Fire, Dying

  M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.406, OUP Oxford

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• Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?

  Valerie Solanas

  Female, Generations, Care

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Serious, Minors

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Gold, Needs

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.

  Albert J. Nock

  Views, Agreement, Order

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• It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

  James Gleick

  Sometimes, Quixotic, Entropy

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• The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

  Louis Leakey

  Mean, Age, Bed

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• Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain

  Bill W.

  Pain, Ignorance, Years

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• Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

  David Graeber

  Slave

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• Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.

  Charlotte Mason

  Mother, Running, Children

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is a means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

  Neil Postman

  Distance, Mean, Magic

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.122, Penguin

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• As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Forever, World, Doers

  "Will underachieving and being directionless alienate me from people?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2012.

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• There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Two, Waiting, Way

  "Will underachieving and being directionless alienate me from people?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2012.

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• The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.

  Raymond Rubicam

  Advertising, Function, Sells

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• Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well.

  Swami Abhedananda

  Wells

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• Love gives life purpose and meaning.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Giving, Purpose Of Life

  Joyce Meyer (2013). “Living in Love, Finding Fulfilment”, Struik Publishers

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• Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults.  He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Imperfection, Inability

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• The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

  Ricardo Semler

  Feel Good, Making Money, Workers

  "Ricardo Semler, Semco SA". edition.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.

  Bernard d'Espagnat

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

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• My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

  William Shirley

  People, Inspire, Keep Moving Forward

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• For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.

  William Romaine

  Song, Children, Angel

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• Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.

  Janet Mock

  Inspiring, Teenager, Makeup

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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