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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Aldous Huxley
excess solitude purpose

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

Aldus Manutius
purpose letters book

Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.

Aleister Crowley
sacrifice purpose blood
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of... by Aleister Crowley

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Aleister Crowley
purpose lust perfect

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Aleksandar Hemon
educational purpose needs

My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivable.

Aleksandra Mir
purpose play world

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

Alex Grey
art-is purpose art

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Alexander Alekhine
purpose giving men

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

Alexander Hamilton
bills purpose rights

I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, all the beneficial purposes of society.

Alexander Hamilton
degrees government purpose

To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined; but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious.

Alexander Hamilton
purpose answers might

It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances.

Alexander Hamilton
debt purpose country

There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made subservient to useful purposes; but which if left entirely to itself, may be attended with pernicious effects.

Alexander Hamilton
purpose mind may
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practic... by Alexander John Ellis

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Alexander John Ellis
accurate finance purpose

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

Alfred Austin
nature purpose law

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

Alfred Edersheim
purpose simple would-be

A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for establishment clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.

Alfred Goodwin
atheism purpose jesus
My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all t... by Alfred Lord Tennyson

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
sunset stars purpose
Through the ages one increasing purpose runs. by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
purpose age running

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

Alfred Marshall
purpose use may
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