6,483 Quotes About Purpose

  • Author Claude C. Hopkins
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    The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

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  • Author J. Edgar Hoover
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    Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.

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  • Author Thomas Hobbes
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    Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

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  • Author Thomas Huxley
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    Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

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