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• Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience.

  Leonard Rose

  Play, People, Important

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• The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places. It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.

  William Torrey Harris

  School, Dark, Self

  "The Philosophy of Education". Book by William Torrey Harris, 1889.

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• Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose, but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  Hal David

  Song, Rap, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within this definition there can be no vain ornamentation or superfluity, but the part of beauty is nonetheless great-in ideal choice of material, in visual refinement, and in the rational elegance of things intended for use.

  Eliot Noyes

  Organization, Choices, Design

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• No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Husband, Father

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• If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course knows this and accordingly attempts to blur our vision. He lies. He shades and obliterates truth. He makes evil look good and good look unenlightened and unsophisticated. Make no mistake about it: Lucifer will do anything to derail, disappoint, dishearten, discourage, and deceive us—and particularly those who have made and are seeking to keep sacred covenants. His motives are entirely self-centered, selfish, destructive, and evil.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mistake, Lying, Selfish

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Steps, Phrases, Use

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• Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Three, Salvation, Quarters

  Charles Henry Parkhurst (1897). “Talks to Young Men”

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• Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Technology, Use, New Technology

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• The purpose of God's blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing.

  Brian Houston

  Blessed, Blessing, Impact

  Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.20, Hillsong Music Australia

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• God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  People, Trials, Able

  Ruth Graham, Jerry L. Sittser, Joni Eareckson Tada (2009). “When Your Rope Breaks”, p.43, Zondervan

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• It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the wider world. It is nothing but a vehicle for our greater creative purpose but if we don’t give it fuel and keep it in good working order it instead becomes another obstacle to transcend, a physical one, as well as the many million fictitious mental ones that society presents.

  Evanna Lynch

  Order, Ideas, Giving

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• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Men, Self Worth, Law

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• You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

  Bob Proctor

  Reason

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• Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.

  Bob Proctor

  Vision

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• The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.

  Geneen Roth

  Healing, Broken, Dying

  Geneen Roth (1991). “When food is love: exploring the relationship between eating and intimacy”, E P Dutton

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• Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.

  Colleen Houck

  Regret, Disillusioned, Success Is Measured By

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• I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Gestures, Bows, Force

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.11, A&C Black

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• Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.

  Norman Macbeth

  Practice, Tree, Ancient

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• My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

  Emily Levine

  Grandmother, People, Olympics

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• I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.

  R. J. Anderson

  Long, Grace, Cosmos

  R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.291, Carolrhoda Lab

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• I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.

  R. J. Anderson

  Unique, Ideas, Design

  R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.290, Carolrhoda Lab

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• Jeff Klein, one of the earliest champions of Conscious Capitalism, offers a highly practical yet profoundly intuitive blueprint for achieving your purpose-and making a difference at work. You will return to Working for Good again and again. It belongs on your desk and in your heart.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Heart, Differences, Champion

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• I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future. Its purpose ought to be to illuminate the road, to point out obstacles and potential pitfalls and so assist management to tailor events and to bend them in a desired direction. Forecasting should be used as a device to put both problems and opportunities into perspective. It is a management tool, but it can never be a substitute for strategy, nor should it ever be used as the primary basis for portfolio investment decisions.

  Peter Cundill

  Thinking, Intelligent, Opportunity

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• It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

  M. L. Stedman

  Civilization, Luxury, Practicals

  M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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