There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
William Hazlitt
I think the kinds of programs the IMF [International Monetary Fund] is putting in place are strong programs, I think they're well designed for their purposes, and I think they should work.
Robert Rubin
There are no studies that have generated any data on the outcome of the human consumption of peyote for religious purposes or for illegal purposes.
John Halpern
By enabling an infected machine to be remotely controlled, this threat opens up the user's identity and computer for potentially malicious purposes.
Vincent Weafer
One of the purposes of being out here is to slow these guys down while people are working in construction zones.
Jean Paul Richter
They would make condemnations for economic development purposes almost impossible.
Mary Okoye
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
Henry Kissinger
We are still investigating how these items were to be used, but you can rest assured they were not for peaceful purposes.
Julie Myers
It's improper to use the egg roll for political purposes.
Mark Tooley
This win kept us from being mathematically eliminated (for the conference title). If we had lost, we would have been eliminated with four losses. It was a huge win for seeding purposes for the playoffs.
Patrick Springer
It strikes me that you are trying to use the newspapers' good name for your own purposes.
Charles Wheeler
You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers never intended or designed for.
Clay Shirky
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
Stephen Jay Gould
If we think for one minute that this is for educational purposes, we're kidding ourselves. I can't help but think that this is just a foot in the door to circumvent the veto.
Chuck Jackson
The biotech industry is seeking to minimize human life for economic purposes, ... They're trying to redefine when life begins.
Susan Klein
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
There's a number of different factors affecting the markets. We're getting near the end of the year and with the S&P 500 up around 20 percent, there's a lot of portfolio pruning going on, with people taking profits, or choosing to sell for tax purposes.
Sarat Sethi
The Illinois Conference of Churches regards the granting of an exemption to any government entity for expedient purposes of economic development to be a gross violation of the religious freedom secured by this nation's laws and constitution.
David Anderson
This show, by all intents and purposes, should have closed on the 21st. But if we get them in, they will spread the word. I'm positive.
Joseph Brooks
Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
One of the primary purposes of this rapid branch expansion has been to take advantage of opportunities as they become available in attractive markets. Although these new locations have increased overhead expenses, we are confident they will contribute to profitability within the next few years.
Brian Peters
We argued that 18 is the natural age. It's an age that's reflected almost universally whenever legislatures have to find a dividing line between adolescence and adulthood, for purposes of driving, and signing contracts and entering marriage agreements and things like that.
Seth Waxman
If a device has two purposes, the primary purpose will trump the second.
Thom Mocarsky
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
At this moment I can't disclose that for business purposes, but it would be a subsidiary of Mid-Day. Currently, Mid-Day and my family together own 100 percent of the company.
Tariq Ansari
Because the plutonium that would be produced in this project would be used for national security purposes, we believe it would be eligible for disposal outside the state of Idaho.
Brad Bugger
Such a centre may also involve other countries, which seek to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Sergei Kiriyenko
It?s good to advance. For seeding purposes (at states), I wanted to get a win.
Sam Walters
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Idries Shah
Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is committed to eradicating this evil.
Alex Acosta
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
It's a bizarre working at cross- purposes. You have bad relations with this government, and you're selling them the means to put down opposition protests.
Adam Isacson
I think this is more a case of noises-off for domestic purposes rather than serious intent by Cyprus.
John Palmer
What scares me about the whole thing is I've had a couple of people tell me that Labs and beagles are the dogs most used for experimental purposes.
Jo Guertin
One of the main purposes is to explain why the studies found in the literature have such divergent results.
Alexander Farrell
All you do is take more money out of taxpayers' hands that could be used for something more useful, like education or other purposes. These are political decisions that have no economic or fiscal basis.
Stuart Anderson
The report is very explicit as to what occurred. For all practical purposes, it essentially was a gang rape.
Jim Solomons
This system, we hope, will detect a terrorist before an incident happens, not just be able, for forensic purposes, after an incident happens, to identify the terrorist.
Katherine Lapp
For all practical purposes, the Washington case is going to resolve the matter.
Karl Quackenbush
For all intents and purposes, our new strategic plan will become our application to the federal government.
Wayne Sanford
It's amazing that it's as active in the blast crisis as it is, ... Essentially for all practical purposes that disease is basically untreatable. It was completely unexpected in my mind. It's possible that, if combined with chemotherapy, we may see even better responses.
Harmon Eyre
Japan's assertions that this whaling is necessary for scientific research purposes are unfounded.
Sandra Lee
The Court recognized that just like shopping malls are the new public square, these associations have become and act, for all practical purposes, like municipal entities unto themselves.
Frank Askin
I think it's a crime to take what is, for visual purposes, a wonderfully pristine area and convert it to a landfill.
Mike Savage
We've said consistently that the federal government should not take more in tax from people than they need for program expenditure purposes, because while Alberta is very competitive tax-wise, Canada is not.
Shirley Mcclellan
They were doing this for market purposes, not to help the team individually. It's never in best interest of an individual club to disclose which player they're going to tender or not tender. The free agent market has been artificially manipulated by owner conduct.
Scott Boras
We make it very, very clear that we do not condone dishonesty or the use of public funds for anything other than University purposes.
Leonard Sandridge
The Government?s policy is to reduce the wage bill to free resources for development purposes.
Joseph Kinyua
Apparently these people did not have the means to acquire those items except through illicit purposes, and that's why they were recovered.
Maj. Susan Dowsett
Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.
Jonathan Winters
And so, we'll have to see what wins the tug-of-war: greater vendor choice through interoperability and loose coupling, or reduced vendor selection for purposes of efficiency.
Ronald Schmelzer
It (the current system) is a question of who's in power and who is able to use the process for political purposes.
Ben Wilcox
I'm not happy about it. I'm not going to lie. I'm not thrilled. I kind of feel like we were misled as a family about what their intents and purposes were about keeping us here.
Anna Benson
We need to continue to try and get better every game. From here on out every game is important for us for seeding purposes in the NCC tournament.
Sascha Hansen
Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.
Steve Mahoney
In all practical purposes there hasn't been an artist that has only broken online, there has always been some sort of other tie-in.
Matt Kleinschmit
You should calculate your tax return both ways (including and not including combat pay as earned income for EITC purposes) to determine which option gives you the best result. Alternatively, combat pay is included as earned income when calculating the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit.
Mark Steber
Ford would welcome the cash for liquidity purposes, to help provide for large unfunded pension liabilities and for research and development.
David Healy
The judge was authorized to determine for sentencing purposes whether crack, as well as cocaine, was involved.
Stephen G. Breyer
The clinic respects the privacy of its patients, and continues to express its condolences to the family. It is unfortunate that some have chosen to exploit this matter of personal grief for political purposes.
Lee Thompson
No court has actually defined clearly what administrative purposes is.
John Carter
I have to go out and find private grants, because for all intents and purposes, I have to assume I have no medical coverage.
Lee Crabtree
It's tough not being in the same building, just for communication purposes. The only time I get to see my players is at practice or games.
Kyle Tregoning
It is certainly possible for management to enter into vote-buying arrangements with salutary purposes, ... However, I conclude that the plaintiffs have stated a cognizable vote-buying claim.
William Chandler
The new contract would be more useful for hedging purposes.
Michael Pond
We didn't intend those maps to be used for development purposes.
Gray Harrison
Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right".
Max Stirner
Palladium is used a lot for electronic purposes -- new usages now that are in the high-tech area. So it has that kind of a very substantive future.
Bette Raptopoulos
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
It's not only being used for development purposes, but also being used in production environments very heavily.
Rich Lechner
There is concern by us and certainly by many others that this board is subject to capture. There is concern that it's subject to capture by a small group of corporations, to a country, to an advocacy group bent on changing the way the Internet works for its own purposes.
Jerry Berman
As a result of this finding, the poker winnings were classified as income derived from a hobby, and thus not subject to Australian tax. The distinction between the conduct of a business and the mere pursuit of a hobby is often a difficult distinction to draw. However, the fact that you excel at a particular hobby should not be fatal for tax purposes.
Peter Donovan
It does set us back some financially. But again, we see these students are high achievers, so it's not something we try to discourage with them because of funding purposes.
David Sturgill
You gather enough people together, and you have some people who are dedicated to causing public disorder for serious purposes.
Thomas Foran
They had great expectations going into this year and such a fun ride last year to the finals, and knowing that his lacrosse career for all intents and purposes is over is, you know, tragic for us.
Vince O'hara
For all practical purposes, we're an international company now.
Richard Meyer
[Jackson participated in a conspiracy to intimidate and control his accuser and the teen's family] for his own public relations purposes, ... are directly connected to his public image.
Thomas Sneddon
He buys and sells boats for a living. Whether one or two boats end up being used for illicit purposes, the bottom line is he really does not have any knowledge or control of that.
Antonio Yoon
We were especially gratified that he brought in [VCU art faculty members] to consult on what the museum needed in its expansion to make it more useful for educational purposes.
James Farmer
You shouldn't count on your home's value for financial planning purposes.
Harold Evensky
Taking advantage of patients for your own selfish purposes, patients who expected the opposite -- to treat them honestly and to care for them.
John Watts
Kristen is one of the victims. She is more a victim of this than most of us. She lost her mother, her father and for all real purposes, her brother.
Michael Crowley
The distinction between the conduct of a business and the mere pursuit of a hobby is often a difficult distinction. However, the fact that you excel at a particular hobby should not be fatal for tax purposes.
Peter Donovan
You have homes in fields that were once used for agricultural purposes. Those fields are often grass that dries out over the winter and creates a lot of fire fuel.
Tom Spencer
A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
Andrew Bernstein
The fact of the matter is people are dying. And whenever people die, when women and children and innocent noncombatants die for political purposes, one has to call that terrorism.
Richard Armitage
For all practical intents and purposes, everyone is now a filmmaker.
Ira Deutchman
One of the primary purposes of the collective bargaining agreement was to provide for the medical needs of an employee after retirement.
Bill Wyllia
Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, ... You can't use the taxpayers' funds to help you raise money for your political campaigns. Those are two different functions.
David Mcintosh
Bedbugs, for all intents and purposes, had been wiped out. In the last four or five years, the problem has really taken off.
Ralph Blumenthal
When people run for political office, they make statements that they believe serve their political purposes. This could be one of them.
Lonn Hoklin
We feel that among the buyers and sellers they will be using all three streams of data and using all three for different purposes.
Pat Mcdonough
Have a separate electronic communications policy, ... Let your employees know what you expect for company purposes.
Anne Covey
You should have a common archive for all images for both long-term and short-term purposes, and visualization tools should be accessible to all.
Chuck Jett
The board of control would decide their feeder system, and that would be spelled out. Certainly anyone could attend their school, but not for athletic purposes.
Fred Carter
As for the 'pending situation,' I myself am not aware of anything about it that would alter the ownership of POMTOC, so unless one or both of our esteemed partners have separately advised you that they plan to sell their interests, you should assume for your own purposes of managing the company that ownership of POMTOC is not going to change.
Robert Scavone
For clarification purposes not for negotiation. Negotiation is done.
Arnavaz Mistry
For our purposes, we define (William James) theory of pragmatism to mean that instead of just talking about something, you should get out and do it. An idea doesn't have a worth until it is acted upon.
Andy Stoll
The purposes are lost. They need to come home. Right now, they're sitting ducks and our troops are going to die in vain.
Linda Thomas
Every program has (at least) two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
Alan Perlis
I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
Joanna Field
In light of the recent barbaric attacks in downtown Toronto . . . we are very concerned that our informational advertising is being intentionally misconstrued for political purposes.
Larry Whitmore
Counsel's advice to me was that they (SDI) do not have a valid claim for voting purposes.
Tom Hughes
The picketing is for informational purposes. We are, in fact, going to be back at the bargaining table in a couple of weeks, so a lot of the concerns they're expressing will be taken up at the bargaining table.
Lynelle Jolley
Most parts of the building are in good shape. When we're all done it should be, for all intents and purposes, like new.
Jeff Sells
The U.S. demands small packaging for retail purposes where as in places like Hong Kong, they don't care so they make a lot of fun packaging.
Colin Skurnik
Reserved for infrastructure purposes to help ensure stable operation of the Internet.
Jon Postel
I don't think it's particularly close under copyright law. You're not allowed to copy works for commercial purposes without a license, and that's precisely what they're doing.
Paul Aiken
I don't quite understand how someone would want to close down an airport for purposes of saving jobs.
Jeb Hensarling
Ultimately we want to invest it so it generates income and then be able to use that income for a variety of purposes within the province.
Roger Gibbins
They look at it for specific purposes, to see how the individual applies the facts to the law, how the individual articulates policy reasons and persuasive points, the writing skills, the ability to communicate the point effectively.
Stephen Tober
I regret that I sent an e-mail or made a phone call here and there because the effect of that has been used for political purposes and has become a distraction for this university.
Kent Kelso
My wife took more than 50 pictures for insurance purposes before we left. But it turned out not to matter. There's nothing left that you can fit in the palm of your hand.
Freddie Richard
Since coffee is so popular, people aren't afraid to use it for cooking purposes — baking and or cooking.
Paul Winland
Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board.
Charlie Crist
The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.
Neil Postman
The air pollution data was collected by the Environmental Protection Agency for regulatory purposes. Weather data was collected from the National Climatic Data Center, and the mortality data is from the National Center for Health Statistics.
Michelle Bell
The (old) facilities are unusable for health care purposes, ... That doesn't mean the public hospital system is down and out.
Donald R. Smithburg
For our particular purposes, one of the things they get to do is study great literature in depth.
Carl Moore
For all intents and purposes, they've closed it, they've purged it.
Luella Sanders
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
William E. Simon
It's a question of the people using it, not the technology itself. Any technology can be used for good or ill for propaganda purposes or for edification purposes.
Russ Mitchell
What we all agreed to do was use that as a vehicle to refer the case to a private referee to determine the value of the business for (purposes of exercising) the buyout of Mike and Denise's interest in the business.
David Voss
I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.
Sergei Prokofiev
You have proposed a compromise which is basically acceptable, and will, I believe, both accommodate our concerns and allow the committee to proceed with its legitimate legislative purposes.
David Kendall
If we committed that cash toward a match for purposes of a grant, then we wouldn't be able to use it for anything else.
Jack Greene
According to the Christian faith, we in the Western countries have a strong perception that we are the masters of creation. Consequently, we are entitled to use nature for our own purposes. When we do so, the equilibrium between original people and nature is upset. People are alienated from nature and are no longer part of it.
Georg Henrik Von Wright
The E.U. recognizes the inalienable right of NPT parties to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Peter Jenkins
This is all a very politicized process. They're going to need to go out and shop this measure, and they want to be sure the ballot title is optimal. And they have opponents who want to be sure the ballot title is optimal for their purposes.
Kevin Neely
In the long run a man becomes what he purposes, and gains for himself what he really desires.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
You get a passing visit, but you don't get anything substantive, because Fox knows that Fabian can't do anything. ... He's working at counter purposes with the governor, it seems to me.
Ray Haynes
For all practical purposes participating in it.
Alan Grayson
You couldn't have imagined this occurring four or five years ago, certainly, maybe not even two or three years ago. And here we are now, two nations standing side by side with essentially the same purposes, the same goals.
Pete Peterson
As confidence further strengthens, we expect the names of the 3,000 fighters to be handed over to [the mission] for the purposes of registration so they can receive their entitlements.
Peter Feith
In the four years of our involvement with the development of this park, we have observed that no planning applications have been submitted for industrial purposes or so-called long-term career-oriented employment.
Sharon Lewis
From a university perspective this is great. We'll be getting more space in the UCC for academic purposes; the students will get more space for clubs. This is a win-win situation for all.
Gitta Kulczycki
Computer users are often unaware that their computers are being controlled by others and used for malicious purposes.
Helen Coonan
It's not public information. It's more campaign posturing. It's very interesting the way he is using his office for political purposes. It's shameless.
Brian Harlin
We rebuilt that line across the Gulf Coast as quickly as possible because it's a critical artery for us. It serves our purposes. It meets our customers' needs. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Gary Sease
For federal purposes, civil unions are not marriages.
Andrew Koppelman
For all intents and purposes, it [the 128-bit encryption] is unbreakable.
Scott Schnell
Iran has the right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
Hassan Wirajuda
Clear evidence that Iraq had taken advance actions at certain of the locations planned for inspection in order to defeat the purposes of inspection.
Richard Butler
We're not out of it by any means, but we don't have total control now like we would have if we had beaten Mount Vernon. For all practical purposes, if we lose another, it's over. We've got to take care of business and hope the chips fall in our favor now.
Larry Eberst
[The money was] for two purposes. One, to help us operate our early childhood program and second, to help us build this beautiful building.
Stan Boynton
It's House policy that no legislative resources be used for campaign purposes.
Towson Fraser
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
Geoffrey Fisher
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
Helen Merell Lynd
One of things we told him is he couldn't have costumed people as a form of advertising. He has the people out there specifically for advertising purposes.
Debbie Murray
We offer a lot of extra space in our home designs that can be used for a variety of purposes.
Tom Murray
It is her testimony that these calls... were for improper purposes. It is our contention that they were for proper leadership purposes.
Charles Gittins
I don't believe we should be destroying a member of the species for simply research purposes.
David Prentice
For all intents and purposes, supply and demand are balanced out.
Charles Swanson
It is likely that it will never be used as a legal instrument. The most important thing is that when the subject comes up for education purposes, children can be shown that this is not an okay behavior.
Russell Atkinson
I think what the detectives are looking to do is just basically enhance the chain of custody of that gun for evidentiary purposes.
Mac Mcmullen
Leave your name and address along with the estimated value of the items you are donating, and we will see a receipt is sent to you for tax purposes.
Kandys Killough
In a park, you can come in, take pictures and leave. But a preserve has a multiplicity of purposes.
David Barna
We manipulated it a little bit for pronunciation purposes.
Nolan Lawing
I want to be very clear. The office is the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, so we're not just focused on religious organizations. We're interested in achieving important civic purposes.
John Diiulio
In many cases, affluent homeowners have more than one trophy property for either recreational, entertainment or investment purposes.
Jim Gillespie
A standard that Europeans created basically for their own purposes.
Andrew Natsios
Today is the last day for an individual to change their party enrollment so that it would be effective next year. For purposes of voting or running for office.
Dennis Ward
It was probably wrong on our part to agree to the size of the honorarium that we were offered, ... Yet, despite all the hue and cry, let us not forget that 95 percent of the honorarium was really transferred for charity purposes.
Anatoly Chubais
Eminent domain is already among the most awesome powers of government, and we must do everything possible to protect the rights of private property ownership. Eminent domain should be defined as narrowly as possible so that it is restricted to truly public purposes.
Stan Sieron
These activities contradict the positive commitments by the new Palestinian government not to use the Jordanian arena for any purposes that harm Jordan's security or for meddling in its internal affairs.
Nasser Joudeh
What's understood is that the newspapers are allowed into the building to take photos for news purposes. We are more than happy to have them take pictures. It's good for us and it's good for them.
Richard Buchanan
We have all the data from the beginning of time, and we use it extensively for analysis purposes.
Michael Wilson
We'd like to see less of that tax being used for operational purposes and more of it going to capital projects. So with that thought in mind, that's kind of been where we've guided this year's proposed budget.
Ken Cantrell
We support the goal -- to impede the use of the product for illegal purposes. There are problems with additional burden with the patient and pharmacist.
Jim Bracewell
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
So many of us lost friends but what is coming through the most is the outrage and the disbelief that any group could consider these kind of acts serve larger purposes.
Queen Noor
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.
Dr. Willard Gaylin
The worry here is ... will the information that is collected here for one purpose be used for other purposes? ... The government history on this subject is not an encouraging one.
Ira Glasser
Any funds that we receive from the city from this or any other project, my board would likely earmark for specific housing purposes -- if the money is not articulated by the city itself.
Elizabeth Black
The site, for all intents and purposes, will be secure.
Edward Krusa
From this line one could consider if the business could, in the future, be sold or run by non-owner management for the benefit of the owner for retirement purposes or other.
Edward Smith
One of the purposes of this hearing is, of course, to explore everything because we know there's a need. We're not sure the best way to get there.
Ed Whitfield
We do see human body parts come in, but typically they're used for research purposes.
Zachary Mann
I heard about that policeman's affidavit this morning, and that will be one of my purposes to fly to Australia.
Erwin Siregar
Emails can be dangerous. You tend to lose your formality and thoughtfulness in emails... It's a fine means of setting up meetings but for substantive purposes, you have to be much more careful of what you're doing and you can't use it for a medium of entertainment in the office.
Eric Rosenberg
Investment in gold in Malaysia is still very much in the infancy stage. People here buy gold for aesthetic purposes and gifts.
Ermin Siow
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