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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Quotations regarding 'Purpose'

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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Ira Glass, American Journalist (1959-  )
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.
Tom Glazer, American Musician (1914-2003)
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet (1749-1832)
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet (1749-1832)
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma Goldman, Lithuanian Activist (1869-1940)
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist (1956-  )
If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.
Mike Gordon, American Musician (1965-  )
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
Juan Goytisolo, Spanish Poet
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.
Jennifer Granholm, American Politician (1959-  )
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
Richard Grant, American Author
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
Simon Greenleaf, American Judge (1783-1853)
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, Austrian Poet (1791-1872)
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
George Halas, American Coach (1895-1983)
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock, American Musician (1940-  )
Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.
Mark Hanna, American Businessman (1837-1904)
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris, American Journalist (1917-1986)
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Sydney J. Harris, American Journalist (1917-1986)
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison, American President (1773-1841)
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison, American President (1773-1841)
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison, American President (1773-1841)
 
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