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“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.”

Writing Made I Can Ends Goal Novel Sole Best Novel

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.”

People Men Want Should Mean Made Ends Found Mistake Ultimate Leaving Satisfying Sole Want U Exclusion Misers Unsatisfied

Author:Herbert Spencer

“The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.”

Ideas Ends Language Perfect Creation Office Sentiments Sole

Book:Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction ... Twenty-fifth edition, improved

Source: Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction ... Twenty-fifth edition, improved

“When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow.”

Mind Ends Country Struggle Economic Revolution Development Bases Forgotten Objectives Our Country Ideology Revolutionary Sole Strategic Economic Development

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“The end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.”

People Ends Country Use Results Environment Needed Areas Strategy Release Landscape Regions Occupation Sole Household Adoption Wildlife Settlement Permaculture End Results Flora

Author:Bill Mollison