Adam Smith Quotes, Self Quotes, Purpose Quotes

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his 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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I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.

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History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

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The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

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

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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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 extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

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Art is purposiveness without purpose.

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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.

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Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

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Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

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