#purpose

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. ↗

— John Searle

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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#devil #his #purpose #scripture

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose. ↗

— William Shatner

#happen #i #i believe #i believe that #purpose

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#different #even #every #might #novelist

I think punditry serves no purpose. ↗

— Nate Silver

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That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

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The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#deepening #purpose #save #spirit

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#classroom #combine #frequently #growth #home

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#clutter #consequence #describing #essentially #just