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Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
Energy
Sheryl Adams

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Character
Aristotle

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I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
Computers
Dave Barry

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction
Opportunity
Best of Bits and Pieces

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Power
Aneurin Bevan

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Purpose
John Mason Brown

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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
Books - Reading
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Purpose
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
Purpose
Leo Buscaglia

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Purpose
Thomas Carlyle

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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Purpose
Pablo Casals

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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Food and Eating
Cyril Connolly

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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
Purpose
Benjamin Disraeli

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
Success
Benjamin Disraeli

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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
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Benjamin Disraeli

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
Purpose
Benjamin Disraeli

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The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.
Imagination
Mack R. Douglas

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Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.
Mission
Mourning Dove

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Business
Peter F. Drucker

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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Lies and Lying
Finley Peter Dunne

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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Purpose
George Eliot

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
Failure
George Eliot

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
Happiness
Johann G. Fichte

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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
Education
Malcolm S. Forbes

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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
God
R. Buckminster Fuller

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun