“ Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. ”
- Robin G. Collingwood- Copy
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“ The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. ”
- Franz Grillparzer- Copy
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“ Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. ”
- Joel Hawes- Copy
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“ Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
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“ If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. ”
- Jean Paul- Copy
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“ Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
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“ One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit. ”
- Thomas Huxley- Copy
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“ Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things I am tempted to think there are no little things. ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
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“ People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goals that do not inspire them. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
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“ You may not accomplish every goal you set — no one does — but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
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“ For those of us who believe in the value of every human life, there isnt any more inspiring work under way in the world today. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. - King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I believe we should show some support but I also agree with the church's way of going about it, instead of having to go out and protest. It's just not necessary. ”
- Juan Ruiz- Copy
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“ Dermatologists often talk about people who seem 'addicted' to the sun people who know it's not good for them to be bronzed all the time, but don't seem able to stop tanning,... It's interesting that by slightly modifying tools used to identify substance-related disorders, we can see an objective similarity between regular tanning and those disorders. ”
- Richard Wagner- Copy
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“ The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ God is a reality of spirit… He cannot… be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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