A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Purpose
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
我相信，我和我的战友们参加这场战争的目的应该如此明确，以致不可能改变他们，如果做到了这一点，现在就可以通过谈判达成激励我们的目标。
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
不要忘记一个人的生活的目的是改善人类自身,所以,他可能离开这个世界,在他伟大的球或小,做一些有利于他的生物和有点困难减少世界上的罪恶和悲伤。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
反应的生活是一种奴役的生活，在智力上和精神上都是如此。一个人必须为行动而战，而不是被动反应。
I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
我在做我认为我来到这个世界上是要做的事。我真的很感激拥有我所热爱的东西，我认为这是非常重要的。
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
教育的目的是用开放的思想取代空虚的思想。
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
令人惊奇的是，当我们确信自己在履行自己的职责时，会激发起多大的决心、勇气和意志力。
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
如果我们对动物创造的经济只给予很少的关注，我们就会发现明显的预谋、毅力、决心和完善技巧的例子，以便达到它们的目的。
Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
研究表明，这些孩子更容易受到广告的影响，甚至不太可能理解广告的目的。