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#purpose

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.


Sigmund Freud


#every #forcing #him #life #long

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.


Elton Gallegly


#carried #consular #designed #green #identification

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.


Shirley MacLaine


#i #i think #itself #life #myself

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.


Harold MacMillan


#certainly #get #people #politicians #purpose

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.


Ernst Mach


#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.


Niccolo Machiavelli


#bottom #children #crazy #distinction #egos

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.


Norman Mailer


#consciousness #even #exacerbate #final #intensify

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.


Thomas Szasz


#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.


Og Mandino


#apply #become #cries #efforts #grain

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.


Ziggy Marley


#everything #given #god #good #great






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