#purpose

I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

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The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#different #earlier #eu #kosovo #presences

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car. ↗

— Jenson Button

#because #buzz #car #driving #enough

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do. ↗

— Pablo Casals

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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ↗

— Warren Christopher

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Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad. ↗

— Amber Valletta

#art #bad #dreams #entertainment #future

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. ↗

— Howard Thurman

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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

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When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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