“My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.”
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“My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.”
DNA Lounge blog http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2004/04.html#18
“It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.”
Khurshid Alam Khan in: Foreword.
About Zakir Hussain, Quest for Truth (1999)
“The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.”
Princeton thesis, 1951 ( http://www.vanguard.com/bogle_site/sp20051015.htm)
As quoted in Iran’s Royal Opposition http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/02/10/iran-s-royal-opposition.html, The Daily Beast, Feb 10, 2010.
Interviews, 2010
1930s, Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York (1936)
Context: Let me warn you, and let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion that says: "Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!"
Source: Cours de linguistique générale (1916), p. 112
Context: The characteristic role of language with respect to thought is not to create a material phonic means for expressing ideas but to serve as a link between thought and sound, under conditions that of necessity bring about the reciprocal delimitations of units. Thought, chaotic by nature, has to become ordered in the process of its decomposition. Neither are thoughts given material form nor are sounds transformed into mental entities; the somewhat mysterious fact is rather that "thought-sound" implies division, and that language works out its units while taking shape between two shapeless masses. Visualize the air in contact with a sheet of water; if the atmospheric pressure changes, the surface of the water will be broken up into a series of divisions, waves; the waves resemble the union or coupling of thought with phonic substance.