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Edward Abbey What is the purpose of the...
Chinua Achebe Stories serve the purpose of...
Henry B. Adams He too serves a certain...
Henry B. Adams The press is the hired agent...
Mortimer Adler The purpose of learning is...
Mortimer Adler The purpose of learning is...
Ama Ata Aidoo For us Africans, literature must...
Mitch Albom The way you get meaning into...
Alexander Alekhine The purpose of human life and...
Sherman Alexie My only purpose is to teach...
James Allen To begin to think with purpose...
James Allen Above all be of single aim...
James Lane Allen To begin to think with purpose...
James Allen To begin to think with purpose...
Archie R. Ammons I can't tell you where a...
Anastacia To make a difference is just...
Richard Dean Anderson So it allows me to travel...
Barbara de Angelis What allows us, as human...
Saint Thomas Aquinas Three conditions are necessary for...
Aristotle Anybody can become angry - that...
Aristotle Anyone can become angry - that...
Mary Kay Ash We must have a theme, a...
Matthew Ashford It ended up being a very...
Saint Augustine The purpose of all wars, is...
Saint Aurelius Augustine The purpose of all war is...
Alan Autry It cannot take decades to...
Charles Babbage There is, however, another purpose...
Liberty Hyde Bailey The true purpose of education...
John Perry Barlow They seem to have forgotten...
Dave Barry I am not the only person...
William Bartram IF we bestow but a very...
Bernard Baruch The main purpose of the stock...
Cecil Beaton Be daring, be different, be...
Beck I'm just taking one step at...
Henry Ward Beecher A Christian is nothing but a...
Rand Beers The purpose of Plan Columbia...
Ruth Benedict The purpose of anthropology is...
Walter Benjamin It is precisely the purpose of...
Bo Bennett Those who improve with age...
Bo Bennett Visualization is daydreaming with a...
Aneurin Bevan The purpose of getting power...
Vinoba Bhave All revolutions are spiritual at...
Ambrose Bierce Fork: An instrument used chiefly...
Ronald Biggs I was involved in the robbery...
Theodore Bikel I do not know who there...
Juliette Binoche It's never been my purpose to...
Hugo Black In my view, far from deserving...
Hugo Black It is the paradox of life...
Joan Blades The purpose of The Motherhood...
Edward de Bono The purpose of science is not...
Daniel Boone During our travels, the Indians...
Neal Boortz The principal purpose of the...
Neal Boortz The main purpose of Social...
Robert Bork The purpose that brought the...
Catherine Drinker Bowen If art has a purpose, it...
Jack Bowman We're all so mauled by...
David Brainerd Oh, how precious is time, and...
William J. Brennan Death is not only an unusually...
Sydney Brenner In 1995, I founded The...
John Mason Brown The only true happiness comes...
Robert Browning But what if I fail of...
James L. Buckley It would seem, therefore, that...
Sitting Bull There are things they tell us...
Kenneth Burke Our purpose is simply to ask...
Leo Burnett The sole purpose of business...
William S. Burroughs Happiness is a byproduct of...
George W. Bush I think you can judge from...
George H. W. Bush America is never wholly herself...
Robert Byrne The purpose of life is a...
John Cage The highest purpose is to have...
Ken Calvert The Child Custody Protection Act...
Anne Campbell The sensors have many potential...
Donald Cargill I have followed holiness, I...
George Carlin I went to a bookstore and...
Dale Carnegie Your purpose is to make your...
Diahann Carroll I've spent about that amount...
Joyce Cary The will is never free - it...
Pablo Casals The first thing to do in...
William Cavendish But my method of the pillar...
Camilo Jose Cela Ideas? My head is full of...
Emanuel Celler It is the purpose of the...
Vinton Cerf The purpose behind terrorism is...
Joshua Chamberlain But we can hold our spirits...
Chanakya The wise man should restrain...
Charlie Chaplin I do not have much patience...
Gilbert K. Chesterton The purpose of Compulsory Education...
Warren Christopher When I was a very young...
Steven Chu By the fourth grade, I...
Marcus Tullius Cicero Justice is the set and...
Abraham Clark I have the Pleasure to assure...
Thomas Clarkson We cannot suppose therefore that...
John Clayton The purpose of this study is...
Clarence Clemons It's a matter of choosing what...
William J. Clinton If Saddam rejects peace and we...
Nat King Cole I'm in the music business for...
Robin G. Collingwood Parenthood is not an object of...
Christopher Columbus For this purpose I determined...
Christopher Columbus But in truth, should I meet...
Christopher Columbus I am a most noteworthy sinner...
Henry Steele Commager The fact is that censorship...
Henry Steele Commager Censorship always defeats it own...
Charles Horton Cooley No matter what a man does...
James F. Cooper Party leads to vicious, corrupt...
Nicolaus Copernicus So far as hypotheses are...
Marie Corelli I never married because there...
William Cowper Existence is a strange bargain...
Quentin Crisp The very purpose of existence...
Quentin Crisp The very purpose of existence...
Herbert Croly When the Promise of American...
Will Cuppy The Dodo never had a chance...
George Armstrong Custer My purpose is to make my...
Billy Ray Cyrus The people at the record...
Tyne Daly You know, my hair is very...
Charles Darwin The universe we observe has...
Ron Davies It's about getting a more...
Bette Davis My passions were all gathered...
Stockwell Day Tony Blair faced a massive...
Moshe Dayan Soldiers of Israel, we have no...
Morarji Desai In the early ages, I believe...
Norm Dicks During the past 30 years...
Benjamin Disraeli The secret of success is...
Benjamin Disraeli I have brought myself, by long...
Jeane Dixon Our lives are programmed at...
James Dobson Children are not casual guests...
Christopher Dodd America's highways, roads, bridges, are...
William O. Douglas The association promotes a way...
Mack R. Douglas The mind must see visual...
Peter Drucker The purpose of a business is...
Peter Drucker The purpose of business is to...
Finley Peter Dunne A lie with a purpose is...
Wayne Dyer Everything in the universe has...
Wayne Dyer When you dance, your purpose...
Wayne Dyer When I chased after money, I...
Freeman Dyson You ask: what is the meaning...
Charles Eames Design is a plan for arranging...
Eamon Fundamentally, the purpose of the...
Marian Wright Edelman Service is the rent we pay...
Thomas A. Edison Being busy does not always...
Charles Edison Conscious of our many problems...
Atom Egoyan It was very important that it...
Barbara Ehrenreich There is the fear, common to...
Dwight D. Eisenhower The purpose is clear. It is...
Dwight D. Eisenhower Together we must learn how to...
George Eliot The only failure one should...
George Eliot I'm proof against that word...
George Eliot The only failure a man ought...
Roland Emmerich Nobody makes movies bad on...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan The purpose cannot be creating...
Andrew von Eschenbach Our purpose in this project is...
William Falconer The fishes are also employed...
Louis Farrakhan However, those who have used...
Douglas Feith The purpose of the UN...
Dorothy Fields Keep it in tune with the...
Bob Filner Studies indicate that these children...
Martin H. Fischer Don't confuse hypothesis and theory...
Laurence Fishburne I think of myself as being...
Michael Flanders The purpose of satire has been...
Gustave Flaubert Do not read, as children do...
Ari Fleischer There is already a mountain of...
Malcolm Forbes Education's purpose is to replace...
Malcolm Forbes The purpose of education is to...
Luke Ford I did not want to reject...
Robert Fortune Junipers are generally chosen for...
Sam Walter Foss Bring me men to match my...
Rick Fox Everything I've always done has...
Anatole France The whole art of teaching is...
Brendan Fraser I guess darkness serves a...
Brendan Fraser I suppose if it has a...
John Charles Fremont My purpose was to get leave...
Sigmund Freud We have long observed that...
Bill Frist September 11 impressed upon us...
Stephen Fry When you get just a complete...
R. Buckminster Fuller Here is God's purpose - for...
Elton Gallegly Consular cards were not designed...
Mohandas Gandhi The main purpose of life is...
Jeff Gannon All my stories were usually...
Garet Garrett The spectacle of a great...
Jim Garrison All the charges you enumerate...
Kahlil Gibran Let there be no purpose in...
Sara Gilbert I like that kind of frantic...
Newt Gingrich What is the primary purpose of...
Ira Glass Where radio is different than...
Tom Glazer A characteristic of older folksongs...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be above it! Make the world...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To the person with a firm...
Emma Goldman The State is the altar of...
Andy Goldsworthy Confrontation is something that I...
Mike Gordon If part of the purpose of...
Juan Goytisolo The fundamental purpose of a...
Jennifer Granholm The whole purpose was to say...
Richard Grant The value of identity of...
Simon Greenleaf How it came to pass that...
Franz Grillparzer Science and art, or by the...
George Halas Many people flounder about in...
Herbie Hancock Without wisdom, the future has...
Mark Hanna Don't organize for any other...
Sydney J. Harris The whole purpose of education...
Sydney J. Harris The primary purpose of a...
William Henry Harrison All the measures of the...
William Henry Harrison I believe that all the...
William Henry Harrison I believe and I say it...
Barbara Hepworth I felt the most intense...
Auberon Herbert The ruling idea of the...
A. P. Herbert An Englishman never enjoys himself...
A. P. Herbert The Englishman never enjoys himself...
William Herschel All human discoveries seem to...
Arthur Hertzberg My purpose is to have American...
Hermann Hesse It is not our purpose to...
Patricia Hewitt The 2 million people who work...
Napoleon Hill There is one quality which one...
Napoleon Hill Any idea, plan, or purpose may...
Morris Hite It is not the purpose of...
Adolf Hitler Any alliance whose purpose is...
Dee Hock If you look to lead, invest...
Dee Hock What will become compellingly important...
Benjamin Hoff Under Confucianism, the use of...
Eric Hoffer Passionate hatred can give meaning...
Richard Holloway Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are...
Herbert Hoover America - a great social and...
Horace A portion of mankind take...
Terrence Howard The purpose of my life is...
Kin Hubbard There is no failure except in...
Ernie Hudson But when we have families...
Jane D. Hull We're helping those children who...
David Hume A purpose, an intention, a...
William H. Hunt There is no more reason why...
Isabelle Huppert The Greeks already understood that...
Zora Neale Hurston Research is formalized curiosity. It...
Zora Neale Hurston Research is formalized curiosity. It...
Thomas Huxley Patience and tenacity of purpose...
Aldous Huxley The propagandist's purpose is to...
Thomas Huxley There is no sea more dangerous...
Thomas Huxley Of moral purpose I see no...
Pope John Paul II When freedom does not have a...
Muhammed Iqbal In the first period religious...
Muhammed Iqbal The ultimate purpose of religious...
Ernest Istook There are many alternatives to...
Shoeless Joe Jackson When I was up there at...
Warren Jeffs So Ham's wife that was...
Mike Johanns Growing up on a dairy farm...
Lyndon B. Johnson Our purpose in Vietnam is to...
Lyndon B. Johnson I report to you that our...
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. The primary, the fundamental, the...
Joseph Smith, Jr. Every man who has a calling...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Law and order exist for the...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Law and order exist for the...
Ashley Judd I was always told I was...
Wynonna Judd My story of success and...
Carl Jung Shrinking away from death is...
Carl Jung As far as we can discern...
Immanuel Kant A categorical imperative would be...
Walter Kaufmann Thirdly, even if we assume...
Walter Kaufmann It does not follow that the...
Walter Kaufmann Life ceases to be so...
Garrison Keillor Cats are intended to teach us...
Helen Keller Many persons have a wrong idea...
Helen Keller True happiness... is not attained...
John F. Kennedy Efforts and courage are not...
John F. Kennedy I look forward to a great...
John F. Kennedy I look forward to a future...
Nikita Khrushchev The purpose of the United...
Tracy Kidder You do the right thing even...
Jewel Kilcher If I'm a phenomenon, it makes...
Michael Kinsley One answer is that the town's...
Michael Kinsley The case decided on Thursday...
Felix Klein The developing science departs at...
Mark Knopfler Every guitar I own gets used...
Frank Knox Patriotism was a living fire...
Boris Kodjoe Yet I wanted to have children...
Jerzy Kosinski And really the purpose of art...
Anna Kournikova You don't think people would...
Karl Kraus Culture is the tacit agreement...
John Kricfalusi I influenced the BG style by...
Dennis Kucinich Bush is going in the wrong...
Jacques Lacan Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient...
Christine Lahti And that's why I chose on...
Dalai Lama The purpose of our lives is...
Dalai Lama Our prime purpose in this life...
Joseph Lancaster A system of education, which...
Joseph Lancaster I am persuaded, that if any...
Joseph Lancaster In such a case, it would...
Henry Laurens I shall have less cause to...
David Herbert Lawrence Myth is an attempt to narrate...
Charles Lawrence After mature consideration it was...
Louis Leakey The trip I made to Angola...
Fran Lebowitz Vegetables are interesting but lack...
Joshua Lederberg I think we have to believe...
Graham D. Leonard The purpose of population is...
James Levine You try on purpose to get...
Arthur Levitt Our purpose, as we face these...
Roy Lichtenstein I think we're much smarter...
Abraham Lincoln Allow the president to invade...
Walter Lippmann Only the consciousness of a...
David Livingstone I determined never to stop...
Heather Locklear Sex appeal is not on purpose...
Henry Cabot Lodge Are ideals confined to this...
Vince Lombardi Success demands singleness of purpose...
Jack London I write for no other purpose...
Sophia Loren A woman's dress should be like...
Juliette G. Low My purpose... to go on with...
Robert Bulwer-Lytton What mankind wants is not...
Ernst Mach The task which we have set...
Shirley MacLaine I think of life itself now...
Harold MacMillan If people want a sense of...
Anne Sullivan Macy The immediate future is going...
Anne Sullivan Macy Education in the light of...
James Madison The purpose of separation of...
Norman Mailer The final purpose of art is...
Norman Mailer I don't think life is absurd...
Og Mandino I am here for a purpose...
Ziggy Marley If religion had a good purpose...
Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short...
Karl Marx The writer must earn money in...
Yukihiro Matsumoto You want to enjoy life, don't...
Kathy Mattea I would step into a place...
Curtis Mayfield Our purpose is to educate as...
Thabo Mbeki When will the day come that...
Hugh McCulloch I have myself no more doubt...
Bryant H. McGill Having a sense of purpose is...
Bryant H. McGill One column of truth cannot...
Marshall McLuhan The photograph reverses the purpose...
Peter McWilliams While goals are chosen, a...
Gregor Mendel The value and utility of any...
Arthur Middleton We are to introduce our people...
Nelson A. Miles Looking at the purpose of our...
John Stuart Mill The only purpose for which...
John Stuart Mill The only purpose for which...
Keith Miller I learned that the purpose of...
Kelly Miller Moreover, broad plans commensurate with...
John Milton A good book is the precious...
Kel Mitchell He felt like the invisible boy...
Issey Miyake The purpose - where I start...
Moliere As the purpose of comedy is...
Thomas S. Monson Choose your friends with caution...
Michel de Montaigne The soul which has no fixed...
Dwight L. Moody Preparation for old age should...
Roy Moore It can have a secular purpose...
Samuel E. Morison With honesty of purpose, balance...
Alanis Morissette And ultimately the people who...
Alanis Morissette But once I acclimated and...
Karl Philipp Moritz I now resolved to go to...
Christopher Morley The real purpose of books is...
John Morton The choice that you, as a...
Ferdinand Mount All the research shows that...
Robert Mueller So there is a foreign...
Bruce Nauman In this case we're building a...
Willie Nelson We create our own unhappiness...
Knute Nelson Gen. Banks has issued an order...
Howard Nemerov Obvious enough that generalities work...
Don Nickles If your basic premise about...
Friedrich Nietzsche To forget one's purpose is the...
David Niven I see my purpose in life...
Donald Norman AS for all those mistakes I...
P. J. O'Rourke After all, what is your host's...
P. J. O'Rourke Humans are the only animals...
Kenzaburo Oe In Japan itself there have all...
Gene Oliver Every path serves a purpose.
Laurence Olivier The office of drama is to...
Ovid It is annoying to be honest...
Anne Parillaud To what purpose is it to...
Gilbert Parker He came by a leap to...
Charles Henry Parkhurst Purpose is what gives life a...
Alan Paton Who knows for what we live...
Ron Paul I am absolutely opposed to a...
Lester B. Pearson As to the first, I do...
Dave Pelzer Whatever you do for the sole...
Pablo Picasso The purpose of art is washing...
Peace Pilgrim A pilgrim is a wanderer with...
Max Planck Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge...
Edgar Allan Poe In criticism I will be bold...
Edgar Allan Poe With me poetry has not been...
Marcus V. Pollio The temple of Ceres should be...
Colin Powell War should be the politics of...
Lisa Marie Presley I dropped out of school in...
Marcel Proust Happiness serves hardly any other...
George Haven Putnam Your purpose, then, plainly stated...
Yitzhak Rabin I enter negotiations with Chairman...
Jim Ramstad The purpose of the ADA was...
Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is...
Ayn Rand The purpose of morality is to...
Ronald Reagan I know in my heart that...
Ronald Reagan Welfare's purpose should be to...
Alain Resnais Luck, I never looked to make...
Joshua Reynolds Few have been taught to any...
Manfred von Richthofen My dear Excellency! I have not...
Rainer Maria Rilke The purpose of life is to...
John D. Rockefeller Singleness of purpose is one...
Nelson Rockefeller It is essential that we enable...
Andy Rooney I didn't get old on purpose...
Andy Rooney Making duplicate copies and computer...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Favor comes because for a...
Harold Rosenberg The purpose of education is to...
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Learn to get in touch with...
Guido van Rossum I would guess that the...
Mark Rothko Art to me is an anecdote...
James Rouse Profit is not the legitimate...
James Rouse For many years, I have lived...
Jack Ruby I have been used for a...
Rita Rudner I love to shop after a...
John Ruskin No lying knight or lying...
John Ruskin It is not how much one...
Bertrand Russell The universe may have a...
Joseph Franklin Rutherford The Bible is the only credible...
Siegfried Sassoon I believe that the purpose for...
Antonin Scalia A journalistic purpose could be...
Menachem Mendel Schneerson When you waste a moment, you...
Charles M. Schulz My life has no purpose, no...
E. F. Schumacher You can either read something...
Albert Schweitzer The purpose of human life is...
Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing...
Walter Scott It is wonderful what strength...
Bobby Scott One of the problems with even...
Nassau William Senior One of the worst of errors...
Peter Shaffer And in fact, I think one...
William Shakespeare The devil can cite Scripture...
Irwin Shaw Every novelist has a different...
Robert Shea Because the better an organization...
Ryan Sheckler If you go out there and...
Neil Sheehan I think you have to remember...
Sidney Sheldon The Dalai Lama. He is a...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Nothing contributes so much to...
Billy Sherwood So that studio served its...
William Shirley My purpose is to inspire...
Sargent Shriver Just to travel is rather...
Clifford D. Simak It is only of life on...
Clifford D. Simak When I talk of the purpose...
William E. Simon The nation should have a tax...
Matthew Simpson I do not purpose to discuss...
Red Skelton If by chance some day you're...
Red Skelton I personally believe that each...
Alfred P. Sloan A car for every purse and...
Ozzie Smith We hope there is a sense...
Adam Smith Consumption is the sole end...
Olympia Snowe Unfortunately, money in politics is...
Joseph Sobran The most fundamental purpose of...
Robert South God afflicts with the mind of...
Arlen Specter The fundamental purpose of government...
Oswald Spengler This is our purpose: to make...
Scott Stapp Now, there are people that are...
Willie Stargell I never search for a reason...
Howard Staunton Each player, it will be...
Ben Stein Keep on beginning and failing...
Adlai Stevenson With the supermarket as our...
Louis Stokes The purpose of sealing the...
W. Clement Stone Definiteness of purpose is the...
John Stossel Happiness comes when we test...
Mark Strand I certainly can't speak for...
Igor Stravinsky Music is given to us with...
Anne Sullivan Keep on beginning and failing...
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Journalism's ultimate purpose is to...
Billy Sunday More men fail through lack of...
Shinichi Suzuki Music exists for the purpose...
Graham Swift All nature's creatures join to...
Thomas Szasz No further evidence is needed...
Edward Teller The main purpose of science is...
William Temple Our present time is indeed a...
William Temple I have always looked upon...
Randall Terry Most of the Ten Commandments...
Margaret Thatcher What is success? I think it...
Lowell Thomas Separately there was only wind...
Marlo Thomas In that I found being able...
William I. Thompson The conscious purpose of science...
William I. Thompson Unconscious Polities emerge independent of...
James Thomson The world rolls round forever...
James Thurber The wit makes fun of other...
Howard Thurman Commitment means that it is...
Charlene Tilton Cherish believes that God made...
Robert Toombs The instant the Government was...
Peter Tork Original Monkees' songs were produced...
Mel Torme Because obviously the whole purpose...
Brian Tracy All successful people men and...
Jim Trelease The prime purpose of being...
Paul Tsongas My father's generation gave to...
Gene Tunney The way to know about...
Scott Turow The purpose of narrative is to...
Morihei Ueshiba The purpose of training is to...
Morihei Ueshiba Mankind's role is to fulfil...
Walter F. Ulmer The essence of a general's job...
Atal Bihari Vajpayee The UN's unique legitimacy flows...
Paul Valery The purpose of psychology is...
Jones Very Often and often must he have...
Miroslav Vitous The money in the schools...
Denis Waitley Winners are people with definite...
Denis Waitley No man or woman is an...
Marc Wallice With what all these people are...
Robert Walpole And here a most heinous charge...
John Walters The purpose of random testing...
Rick Warren If you're alive, there's a...
George Washington We should not look back unless...
George Washington We ought not to look back...
Bill Watterson The purpose of writing is to...
Auberon Waugh Anyone wishing to communicate with...
Simone Weil A doctrine serves no purpose...
Adam Weishaupt Let this circumstance of our...
Robert Welch In the Constitution of the...
William Weld Government can contribute to a...
Orson Welles Hollywood is the only industry...
H. G. Wells There's nothing wrong in suffering...
Paul Wellstone What the poor, the weak, and...
Lisa Whelchel My purpose is to refuel...
Abraham Whipple I received orders from Congress...
Wayne White The whole purpose of those...
Alfred North Whitehead Our minds are finite, and yet...
Thornton Wilder Providence has nothing good or...
George Will Politics should share one purpose...
Robbie Williams I'm really, really enjoying myself...
Rowan D. Williams It is impossible to deny that...
Rowan D. Williams The Church is the new creation...
Paul Williams I am not on this planet...
Woodrow Wilson Golf is a game in which...
E. O. Wilson People need a sacred narrative...
Jeanette Winterson I hate the word lesbian; it...
Scott Wolf Everyone wants that sense of...
Mary Wollstonecraft Nothing contributes so much to...
Fay Wray I think the studio gave me...
Steven Wright I wrote a few children's books...
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Life finds its purpose and...
Michael York So that is how I ended...
Edward Young The purpose firm is equal to...
Arthur Young The purpose creates the machine...
Arthur Young The tendency of philosophers who...
Pia Zadora Butterfly was certainly a vehicle...
Peter Nivio Zarlenga To come to be you must...
Jamie Zawinski My one purpose in life is...


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