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purposes
«It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
Government,
Power,
Purpose
| Keywords:
bend, purposes, regretted, selfish
«I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know»
Author: Joanna Field
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
began, discovery, fit, gradual, preconceived, purposes, shaping, slow
«Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
misfortunes, purposes, subdued
«As water, when transmuted into steam, becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion, when transmuted into intellectual and moral force, becomes a new life, a new power for the accomplishment of high and unfailing purposes.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
purposes, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting
«Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, deny, flatten, flattened, flattening, flattens, humanity, purposes, system, the system
«Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.»
«It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.»
«I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
after, although, body, Creation, death, Death of, feeble, feebler, feeblest, frailties, frailty, God of death, harbor, harbored, harbors, imagine, individual, in short, modeled, Model I, Model T, neither, objects, our own, punishes, purposes, reflection, rewards, ridiculous, short, souls, such, survives
«Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
anxiety, collecting, consumed, cowardice, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, excuses, forming, gloom, languished, languishes, languishing, purposes, reconciles, reconciling, resolutions, scarcely