#poses

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#gilt #many #neither #nor #properly

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. ↗

— Colin Powell

#also #council #demands #doubted #enforced

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#allies #america #danger #effort #ever

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#arrangements #common #concern #delegate #entity

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter. ↗

— James Wolcott

#assume #bipartisanship #cram #difficult #down

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#duty #faith #imposes #opinion #painting

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#beyond #change #content #control #educators

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#command #duty #gives #humiliated #imposes

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#even #generally #important #important thing #in the end

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military