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There is a direct relationship between how we feel about Jesus Christ and how we see ourselves. We cannot increase our devotion to the Savior without also obtaining a greater sense of purpose, identity, and conviction.
Sheri L. Dew
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Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.


Sextus Propertius
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Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.
James Welch
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!


William Lloyd Garrison
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So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
T. D. Jakes
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.


Pablo Picasso
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.


Ernest Hemingway
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The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.


George William Russell
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.


Eric Hoffer
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My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.


Jamie Zawinski
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.


Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.


Henry Fielding
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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.


Stephen Hawking
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This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
John D. Rockefeller
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.


Marilyn vos Savant
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As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.


Abu Bakar Bashir
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I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.


David Blaine
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.


Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.
Nicholas A. Christakis
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp