#purposes

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad. ↗

— Amber Valletta

#art #bad #dreams #entertainment #future

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#defensive #gang #i #leader #purposes

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes. ↗

— Barney Frank

#committee #ethics #hold #knew #looked

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation. ↗

— Ang Lee

#emotions #motivation #purposes #serve #their

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#call #certain #defined #democratic #democratic society

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. ↗

— Friedrich List

#his #how #improvement #invention #learns

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#bottom #children #crazy #distinction #egos

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#essential #forests #healthy #land #living