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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago." »William Hazlitt
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"The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes." »Henry Kissinger
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"Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny." »Tryon Edwards
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"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny." »Tyron Edwards
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"Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents, for he that knows thy purpose best prevents." »Randolph
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"Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee." »William Shakespeare
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"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." »Washington Irving
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"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes." »Kenneth Hildebrand
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"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction." »Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
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"To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness." »William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
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"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 Milhous Nixon
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"To coldfriend or coldfriending - Reaching out of the blue, via the internet, to a previously unknown person, for business purposes." »Chase LeBlanc
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"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions." »Unknown
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"Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one." »Hafiz
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"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love." »Don Barthelme
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"A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished." »John Stewart Mills
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"If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it." »Upham
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"Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm." »Bertrand Russell
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"The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man." »Paul Sweezy
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"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove." »Johnson
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"Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes." »Washington Irving
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." »Louis D. Brandeis
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"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day." »Stephen Jay Gould
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"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 Herbert Walker Bush
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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
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"all the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. for example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"" »Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
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