#purpose

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#beings #designed #emotions #hopes #intended

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#differences #human #make #purpose #safe

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#age #begin #embrace #growth #improve

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #describe #get #make #model

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#democratic #democratic party #earn #force #give

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#build #care #leader #lots #majority

But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of. ↗

— William Cavendish

#besides #effectual #gives #goes #haunches

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#empty #mind #open #purpose #replace