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I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
David Milch
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David Milch
American
Producer
Born:
Mar 23
,
1945
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving
Great
Others
Minds
Great Minds
Purposes
Wishes
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson
Government
Selfish
Own
Rich
Too
Bend
Purposes
Powerful
Often
Regretted
Acts
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. Bush
Great
People
World
Power
Own
Our
Given
Purposes
Advance
Great Show
Name
Make
Nor
Just
Use
Show
Help
Help People
Serve
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell
Achieve
Value
Alive
Rapture
Outer
About
Purposes
Doing
Forget
Being
Engaged
Things
Inner
Associated
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder
Life
Attitude
Music
Art
Best
Day
You
Change
People
Think
Background
Some
Something
Purposes
Songs
Feel
Make
Greatest
Affect
Exists
Art Form
Person
Listen
Different
Form
Might
Different Reasons
Reasons
Serve
Things
Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
Charles Spurgeon
God
Men
Cloud
Summit
Shall
Purposes
Disappear
Like
Itself
Mountain
May
Achievements
Which
Stand
Plans
Ever
Fast
Things
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.
John Tyler
Day
Constitution
Made
Composed
Purposes
Casually
Materials
Nor
Influence
Ascendant
Warped
Flexible
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
Randi Weingarten
Education
Great
Perseverance
Learning
Creativity
Problem
Public Education
Important
Thinking
Those
Out
Critical
Critical Thinking
Solving
Cross
Purposes
Student
Most
Qualities
Testing
Curiosity
Problem-Solving
The Most Important
Public
Measure
Teaching
Standardized
Many
Brings
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
Duke Ellington
Sometimes
Think
Carried
Critics
Someone
Rather
Purposes
Supposed
Concerning
Than
Get
Did
Done
Little
Themselves
Should
Away
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Hannah Arendt
Odds
Overwhelming
Everyday
Statistical
Guise
Miracle
Laws
Purposes
New
Practical
Always
Probability
Happens
Which
Against
Certainty
Therefore
Appears
Amount
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