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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. — Christopher Columbus

Purely formal integrity is just about the only kind of integrity our popular culture celebrates anymore — Anonymous

New Jersey. If there's anyone more purely foolish than a New Yorker, it's a fellow from New Jersey. — Stephen King

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. — John Burns

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having. — Nicolas Winding Refn

He is so used to living a purely spiritual life that he cannot reconcile himself to realities, and, after all, Varenka is a reality! — Leo Tolstoy

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one. — Christopher Dawson

I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise. — Russell Crowe

I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation. — Mary Howard

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears! — Meher Baba

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position. — Hans Kung

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. — Hermann Hesse

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion. — Justin Broadrick

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world. — Bill Bryson

it's purely an accident that we live in a world where 85 people, 85 people, own half the world's wealth — Matt Kennard

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. — Hans Kung

I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin. — Jerry Newport

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films. — Mary Harron

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. — Howard Fineman

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated. — Dian Fossey

Discussions about how God reveals himself to people have little meaning in a purely theoretical framework. — Derek Morphew

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement ... — Karl Popper

In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Difficulty is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are. — Paulo Coelho

Inventions and purely human institutions. — Jean Meslier

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component. — Tom Waits

When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of love. — Rick Riordan

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress. — Robert M. Sapolsky

another day. I have purely selfish motives. I'm a — J.M. Darhower

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. — James Madison

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. — Ravi Zacharias

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice. — Alexander Wang

What they achieved in art and literature is familiar to everybody, but what they did in the purely intellectual realm is even more exceptional. — Anonymous

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits. — David Horowitz

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity — Christopher Nolan

Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps. — Antonio Damasio

The world is unbearably ugly when beauty is judged purely by what is seen on the outside. — Sarah Brownlee

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it. — Jamie Oliver

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. — Eve Ensler

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism. — Mike Ness

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better. — Zelda Fitzgerald

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love. — Simone Weil

Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation. — Wayne Dyer

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake. — Jimmy Buffett

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan. — Alan Moore

Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content. — Rudolf Steiner

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. — Ernest Hemingway,

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility — Haile Selassie

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise ... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. — Jacques Ellul

I think you enjoy messing with people."
"That's a purely hypothetical supposition on your part," the bastard says. — Nenia Campbell

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs. — Frederick Seitz

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. — Lord Chesterfield

I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job. — Seth Rogen

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject. — Robert Todd Carroll

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist. — Robert Fripp

I had a dream about you last night. We watched pornography together, but purely for the storyline. — Michael Summers

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. — Wyndham Lewis

I only ever save you because I can't live without you. My reasons are purely selfish. — Sarah Noffke

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. — Max Weber

I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take ... — Alyson Noel

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. — Michael Korda

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate. — Cassandra Clare

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason — H.L. Mencken

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic. — Thomas Jefferson

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. — Christopher Lasch

When I read, I'm purely a reader. — Anne Tyler

The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own. — Richard Baxter

You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf — Jack Nicklaus

Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me. — Yotam Ottolenghi

If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God. — Frederick Lenz

More honestly and purely speaks the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaks of the meaning of the earth.- — Friedrich Nietzsche

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining. — Zach Condon

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn't know what to make of me. — Jeremy Scahill

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective. — Ian Curtis

She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment. Drunk — Paula Hawkins

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. — James Hunter

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. — Martin Gardner

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so. — Chico Hamilton

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money. — Mel Torme

The most purely free decision one can make - and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth - is believing in something without evidential knowledge. — J.S.B. Morse

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio. — William Safire

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination. — John Ambrose Fleming

I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation — Shahrukh Khan

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. — Kenzo Tange

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers. — Marc Guggenheim

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident. — James A. Owen

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. — O. Henry

Faith in spirituality and love for humanity is purely transcendental. — Debasish Mridha

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. — John Clayton

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally. — Alan Menken

Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life. — Lindsey Davis