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Letter "P" » purposes
«No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Experience,
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
make out, purposes, shock, so-called, suits, trauma
«My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be»
«Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.»
«Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes»
«That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support»
Author: Lysander Spooner
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
any longer, in view, purposes, reasonably, so-called, voluntary
«The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.»
Author: William E. Simon
| Keywords:
American government, approach, citizen, elitist, group, group of people, proclaiming, purposes, relatively, repudiate, repudiated, repudiates, Repudiating
«The Almighty has His own purposes»
«Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
advocate, advocates, agent, agents, ambassadors, assembly, Bristol, congress, Congress of, deliberative, general assembly, general interest, hostile, local, member, Member of Parliament, One Nation, parliament, parliaments, prejudices, purposes, resulting, The Ambassadors, The General
«There's no reason to be otherwise...I think that the kids that come around, it's so nice to meet them. For all intents and purposes they're my boss, they keep me employed.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
boss, come around, employed, for all intents and purposes, intents, purposes, to all intents and purposes
«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.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adults, at bottom, distinction, egos, For some, purposes, specious
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