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Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ↗

— Henry Taylor

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I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. ↗

— Shirley Manson

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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

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This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage. ↗

— Andrew Gould

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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? ↗

— Horace

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Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. ↗

— John Badham

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