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“Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.”

People Thinking Trying Sometimes Purpose Extremity Working With Others Saboteurs

Author:Mark Leyner

“Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.”

People Has Beens Different Government Purpose Support Policy Expenses Tribes Reservations

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.”

People Way Long Has Beens Use Past Purpose Order Passion Emotion Modern Long Time Glory Purity Phenomenon Fundamentalism Oppressed Evoke Islamists

Author:Azar Nafisi

“I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.”

People Whole Purpose Opinion Issues Wife Involved Horse My Wife Sensitive Get Away Get Involved Countryside

Author:Guy Ritchie

“Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.”

People Ifs Sometimes Hard Happiness Life Is Purpose Forget Buddhism Caught Purpose Of Life Caught Up Fog

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

People Needs Life Is Purpose Belief Social Economic

Author:Maurice Strong

“Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life.”

People Feels Kind Christian Purpose Artist Christ Gods Will Evangelical

Author:Scott Stapp

“People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.”

People Needs Wells Life Is Purpose Order Asks Difficult Creativity Economic Type Ambition Tasks Aspiration Labour Insecurity Contracts Portions Immense Exhaustion Economic Systems Repetitive

Author:Tony Benn