Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Purpose Quotes

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.

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TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

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Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

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What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

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We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

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No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

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The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.

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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Brain Quotes , Purpose Quotes

I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

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The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

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