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

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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 ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
Possibilities
George Leonard

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Motivation
Alexander Pope

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