#purposes

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#business #con #convention #decades #fantasy

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#against #another #committed #cruelty #men

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#days #intents #now #purposes

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. ↗

— James Lovelock

#changes #does #earth #life #more

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#beautiful #build #children #commonly #considering

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem. ↗

— John Olver

#air travel #autos #broad #commercial #fuel

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#award #cannot #difficult #i #ideals

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#every #program #purposes #two #which

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#gilt #many #neither #nor #properly