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The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.


Bill Alexander


#anger #being #brigade #even #fought

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.


Karl Von Clausewitz


#form #goal #isolation #means #never

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.


Richard M. Nixon


#conversations #decision #done #historical #i

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.


David Rittenhouse


#beauty #bigness #considerable #contrived #fitter

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.


Antonio Banderas


#both #career #complexities #different #dignity

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.


George W. Bush


#given #great #help #help people #just

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.


Ken Calvert


#any #attempts #ban #bill #both

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?


Joseph Campbell


#attainment #deny #flatten #going #human

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.


Gary L. Francione


#convenience #defense #eat #entertainment #need

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.


Merle Haggard


#before #give #heart #i #instead