#purposes

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ↗

— Henry Taylor

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I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. ↗

— Shirley Manson

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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

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For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7. ↗

— Jean Stafford

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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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It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes. ↗

— Robert Shea

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This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher. ↗

— Robert Shea

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There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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