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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Washington Irving

Great Others Minds Great Minds Purposes Wishes

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

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

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

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. Marshall McLuhan

World Valuable Collective Own Unity Increasingly Our Insight Rather Direction Purposes Most Becomes Real Affair Provide Than Modern Arts Modern World Social Means Techniques Technological

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Death Law Country Believe Think Loathe Unless I Think Immediate Pressing Fraught Threaten Lawful Purposes Attempts Check Opinions Against Eternally Required Should Interference Vigilant Expression Save

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. Alexander Hamilton

Rights People Protection Citizen National Everywhere General Purposes Individual Been Privileges Same Each Each Individual Enjoying

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler

Success Failure Experience Suits Cause Our Out No Experience Purposes Make Shock Just So-Called Experiences Them Trauma Suffer

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes. Carl von Clausewitz

War Political Isolation Considered Object Purposes Never Reaching Goal Means

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also. Charles Spurgeon

Thoughts Christ Matters Sanctity Our Pleases Purposes Take Also Him Does His According Same Grieves Which Them Capacity Communion View Views Believers Jesus

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress. Chester A. Arthur

Health Knowledge People Protection Looking Congress Increase Our Purposes Attention Contagious Importance Supreme Spread Diseases Against Sanitary Measures Deserve

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes. David Ogilvy

Other Marketing Cash Only Purposes Tendency Factor Advertising Clients Mix Whenever Avoid Whom Raid Awkward Marginal Need

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools. Jonathan Kozol

Work Trouble Rich Pain Ghetto Machines Anesthetic Oblivion Purposes Excellent Schools Accepted Up Historically Privilege Children Achieving Suburban Then Produced Use Who Grow Grow Up Servants

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker. Kevin Mitnick

Knowledge Fruit Past Field Criminal Bite Though Kind Security Thrill Purposes Could Hacking Forbidden Because Curiosity Get Legitimate In The Past Interesting Public Skill Working Speaker Used Even Now

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. Sun Tzu

Great Wise Army Intelligence Achieve Will Ruler General Only Purposes Results Great Results Highest Spying Use Who Thereby Enlightened

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. Herbert A. Simon

Good Technology People Bad People Good People Thinking Our Ways Bad About Morals Purposes Doing Use Things

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. Herbert Hoover

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being. James Dobson

Time Man Word Will Our Unless Those Unanswered Remain Purposes He Mortal Clearly Reach Beyond Terms Practical Himself Does Lord Motivation His Questions Begin Often Being Which Explain Us Means Chooses Many Why

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