Bryan Hadlock, chief creative officer at Marc USA, who divides his time between the agency's Chicago and Pittsburgh offices, says the purpose of "Masters of all things hardwarian" is to "make more of the expertise, the know-how, of the associates" at True Value stores.
In the original, 1855 edition, "America" was the book's opening word, and America's purpose, the preface explained, was (of all things) poetry: "The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature.
That the obsession with money is endangering the quality of our culture makes me feel somewhat vindicated in my own view, as an educator, that the purpose of learning things is not to become materially successful at all costs but to know how to live life fully.
The wise Cicero observes, "Men may construe things after their fashion, / Clean from the purpose of the things themselves" (Act I, scene 3, lines 34 35).
In 1962, Kenneth Arrow, the guru of mainstream economics, said that in a free market economy the purpose of inventing things is to create intellectual property rights.
Universals, according to the Buddhists are arbitrarily constructed "exclusions" (apoha); words serve the purpose of separating things off from other objects.
Adding more labels -- like "cisgendered male transvestite" -- in order to justify your act of aggression defeats the purpose of simplifying things with words like "cisgendered".
Looking at history, I suppose this isn't anything new, but in this age of access and information, maybe it's time the courts tried a little harder to fulfill their original purpose of setting things right.
"Law enforcement was not the purpose of this thing at all," Charleston's lawyer, Robert H. Hood, told the justices.
