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Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding Christ as their personal savior. She was one of the students who were declared without hope.

Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

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

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

Enjoyment of life generally includes being socially connected, having fun, and feeling a sense of purpose.

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

Essentially, what the most important questions we can ever ask ourselves are, "Who am I? Who are we all? What do we share, and what is our purpose here? How do we discover meaning?" Addressing these questions is the core of Inspirational Psychology.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Even aimless journeys have a purpose.

Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

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

Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.

Even when I was Miss World, I did all the dressing up I could, so the pretty face thing was done. But it was never about just looking pretty with the crown, I always wanted to make it more than that - I wanted to make it about beauty with a purpose. So I carried that into my films as well.

Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.

Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.

Everybody has to solve that "meaning of life" and purpose question for themselves. Everybody does it their own way. I think you have to be thoughtful about the way that you're doing it. So I describe it as purpose. If you can think about leading a purposeful life - not just an accumulation but you actually make the world a better place - then I think in the grand scheme of the universe, that that explains our existence. If not, we're just passing through. We're grains of sand and we're blowing in the breeze.

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.

... every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose.

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

Every episode has a purpose to move the story forward.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.

Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.

Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.

Every little thing has a purpose, at the same time, it has no purpose because this whole thing is a game. It is the existence which is total, beyond purpose. So you can say, virtually there is no purpose. If at all you have to pin down to a purpose then the purpose of nature is to take you to the Source, is to remind you of the Source, connect you to your Source.

Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.

Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.