#purpose

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. ↗

— James Buchan

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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#encounter #had #now #photograph #purpose

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#make #purpose #serve #world #your

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. ↗

— William Godwin

#argument #because #coercion #could #doubt

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. ↗

— George Halas

#because #life #many #objective #people

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#before #book #hundred #i #intents

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me. ↗

— John Higgins

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Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments. ↗

— John Higgins

#decline #five #go #i #intensity

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'. ↗

— Morris Hite

#advertising #believe #buy #clever #commercial

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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