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The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
Possibilities
George Leonard

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The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven.
Population
Graham D. Leonard

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The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.
Winners and Winning
Alymer Letterman

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I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
Decisions
David Livingstone

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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
Purpose
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Purpose
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.
Success
G. K. Nielson

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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Purpose
Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Honesty
Ovid

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Purpose
Charles H. Parkhurst

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
Purpose
Peace Pilgrim

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Poetry and Poets
Edgar Allan Poe

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Motivation
Alexander Pope

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Happiness
Marcel Proust

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Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose.
Purpose
Proverb

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Praise
Proverb

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Speak little and to the purpose.
Speakers and Speaking
Proverb

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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
Death and Dying
Francois Rabelais

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Morality
Ayn Rand

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
Life and Living
Rainer Maria Rilke

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Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
Purpose
Anthony Robbins

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
Money
John Ruskin

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Words
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Sacrifice
Albert Schweitzer

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The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.
Kindness
Albert Schweitzer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun