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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Friends and Friendship
Kahlil Gibran

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Purpose
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Purpose
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Purpose
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Insights
Hamming

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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
Faith
Bob Harrington

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
Purpose
Philip Henry

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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
Purpose
Kenneth Hildebrand

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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Suggestion
Napoleon Hill

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Power
Napoleon Hill

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Hatred
Eric Hoffer

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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Resentment
Eric Hoffer

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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Theory
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Persuasion
Horace

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Luck
Elbert Hubbard

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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Perseverance
Thomas H. Huxley

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Purpose
Washington Irving

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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Idleness
Samuel Johnson

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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Nature
Garrison Keillor

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Effort
John F. Kennedy

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Risk
Arthur Koestler

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Speakers and Speaking
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
Festivals
Charles Lamb

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Business
Theodore Leavitt

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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Food and Eating
Fran Lebowitz

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