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Saturday, September 28th, 2024
the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Purpose'

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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Saint Augustine, Saint (354-430)
The purpose of all war is peace.
Saint Aurelius Augustine, -
It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
Alan Autry, American Actor (1952-  )
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Charles Babbage, English Mathematician (1792-1871)
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
Liberty Hyde Bailey, American Scientist
They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.
John Perry Barlow, American Writer (1947-  )
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
Dave Barry, American Journalist (1947-  )
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
William Bartram, American Environmentalist (1739-1823)
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
Bernard Baruch, American Businessman (1870-1965)
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton, English Photographer (1904-1980)
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck, American Musician (1970-  )
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman (1813-1887)
The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
Rand Beers, American Soldier
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict, American Scientist (1887-1948)
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Walter Benjamin, German Critic (1892-1940)
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
Bo Bennett, American Businessman (1972-  )
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett, American Businessman (1972-  )
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Politician (1897-1960)
All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator (1895-1982)
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
 
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