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    Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes. They're belief systems that keep you from being able to become all that you are intended to become. They're impediments to reaching God-realization, or Tao-centeredness. People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past. Byron Katie speaks about this: Who would you be without your story? Carlos Castaneda used to say if you don't have a story, you don't have to live up to it. So get rid of your story.

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    Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.

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    Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.

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    Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

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    Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

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    Move forward with purpose

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    Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

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    Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

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    Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

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    Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

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    Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

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    Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

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    Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

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    Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

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    My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

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    My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.

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    My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

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    My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose.

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    My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.

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    My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

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    My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

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    My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.

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    My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

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    My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.

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    My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

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    My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

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    My hope is the Trump administration will approach Russia strategically, with a clear purpose of trying to find more common ground, but without giving up on fundamental values and principles that are at the core of the United States' foreign policy.

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    My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

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    My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

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    My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.

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    My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

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    My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

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    My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

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    My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.

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    My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

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    My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.

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    My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

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    My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.

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    My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.

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    My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

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    My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

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    My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

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    My purpose is to show people that you can take what God put inside of you, inside your heart, and you can live by it! Like, literally. Somebody might like to make shoes or make hats. You can literally live by that gift and no go get a nine to five job. I just to keep my purpose in front of everything that I do, and that is just reminding people that it's possible. That's what it's all about for me.

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    My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

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    My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

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    My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.

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    My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

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    My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?

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    My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

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    My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.