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A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.
Bertrand Russell
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley
The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.
Gerhard Gschwandtner
Fear God and work hard.
David Livingstone
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Horace
For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Aristotle
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Buddha
Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.
Charles Mayes
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
George Bernard Shaw
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold
Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
Orson Scott Card
It is not a virtue, but a kind of deceitful similitude, to fulfill our duty for the purpose of its reward.
Leo Tolstoy
Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
Zig Ziglar
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every person has only one purpose: to find perfection in goodness. Therefore, only that knowledge is necessary which leads to this.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.
Steve Maraboli
With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
