#purpose

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#around #back #businesses #companies #core

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#bluntly #ends #enough #exist #force

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#care #consuming #electricity #farmer #health

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#before #give #heart #i #instead

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#arrived #chased #enough #everything #focused

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#each #him #honor #learn #other

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#added #complex #complex system #confucianism #court

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit. ↗

— Shoeless Joe Jackson

#base #could #get #getting #hit

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#about #being #being famous #crazy #crazy world

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#aggravate #also #between #cases #create