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Meanings of human purposes in English

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Usage of human purposes in English
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For human purposes, however, the water of Tatooine was only marginally accessible.
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
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It carries a sense of time's texture, of successive human purposes.
The Irish Times
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Habits give control over the environment, power to utilize it for human purposes.
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed...
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Consequently, the disposition and motive of God always reflect human purposes.
The Moral Economy
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And since Destiny is unconquerable, human purposes may or may not become attainable.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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But Dr Scheperjans urged caution on the interpretation of these results for human purposes.
Radio NZ
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Their domineering impulses find satisfaction in conquering things, in subjecting brute forces to human purposes.
A Preface to Politics
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For human purposes a point must always be soon reached where larger synthesis is suicide.
The Education of Henry Adams
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The subtraction of the moral sense will not revolutionise human purposes, but simply make them listless.
Is Life Worth Living?
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For divine as well as genuinely human purposes it must be subdued and eventually left behind.
An Interpretation of Friends Worship
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They exhibit human purposes and emotions which we can understand, and despise or love as the case may be.
Pictures Every Child Should Know / A Selection of the World's Ar...
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No one contemplates commercial aloofness nor any other aloofness contradictory to the best American traditions or loftiest human purposes.
State of the Union Addresses
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I was reminded of the way in which robins and other birds annex gardens and orchards, regardless of human purposes.
Odd John
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It seems quite arbitrary, for we carve out everything, just as we carve out constellations, to suit our human purposes.
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
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A human institution, called out by the needs of the social, affectional human nature for human purposes....
Woman and the Republic / A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement...
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Money and its uses had impressed her; the quantity possessed by some, the utter need of it for the first of human purposes by others.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
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