To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.
Religion does not care about your purpose or determination; it just wants you to live like hell.
Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.
Learning is not the sole purpose of our existence, but if you can't even cope with that then what will you ever achieve?
The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.
If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.
That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.
