#purposes

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#countries #economic #great #law #national

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

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#destroying #full #here #i #la

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#beyond #change #content #control #educators

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#before #book #hundred #i #intents

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

#command #energy #entire #man #military

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

#ends #exist #experience #form #our

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#combined #energy #more #narrowness #nothing

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#experience #government #guard #liberty #most

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