Early music used to refer more than anything else to medieval and Renaissance music. Now it also includes baroque and classical music. While the EMI's main purpose is to study early or 'ancient' music, ancient music now goes from about 1200 to 1820.
Purposes Quotes (1644 Quotes)
My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
To think that it could have been done on purpose, with no intent to make good on it.
To disbelieve in the gods is at the same time to affirm life, purpose and beauty.
This was just a sad, bad accident. I do not believe they did this on purpose. I have been feeding Diamond for a number of years and it has served me well. The dogs like it and the dogs are happy and healthy with it.
He shot his wife, but he doesn't know how. Did he pull the trigger Of course he pulled the trigger, but the question has always been did he pull that trigger on purpose If you listen to that tape, it's obvious he didn't.
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
The issue here is indeed control. It is the appropriation of material that they don't own for a purpose that is, however altruistic and lofty and wonderful, nevertheless a commercial enterprise.
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
There's a twofold purpose. Not just for bad weather but sometimes helping players recover.
There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy'. The need to live is our physical need for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical well-being, health. The need to love is our social need to relate to other people, to belong, to love and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental need to develop and to grow. And the need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution
FORTY DAYS is a social, spiritual and learning experiment in which people experience the intensity of monastic life. The purpose is not religious conversion per se, but it is to expose people to the reality of unplugging from modern life completely and creating the opportunity to explore their beliefs in a contemplative environment. The tone of the series will be thoughtful and respectful to the brothers and sisters who have made their monastery home to our production team and the participants in the series.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
This particular neighborhood is actually dying. We keep hearing 'public purpose' while in this case private investment has been a public purpose.
I am not going to engage in an argument about canons etc. It is now a part of church process - and I hope that process recognizes it for what will serve no useful purpose, and has no real basis, and makes recommendation to the PB that it be dropped. We have had great restraint in not filing presentments over canonical violations since my case was dismissed. The ECW and others did not file against those who were in violation of canons. At the GC 1997 in Philadelphia, behind the scenes there was an attempt to pass something that exempted the Bishops of the Dioceses that did not ordain women (attempt made by them) and it did not work. I note particularly that charges against me and against Drew Smith came out of the same right wing matrix that was seeking such exemption for their own point of view. This is really a messy situation and I believe it will get messier now.
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might beneither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
The purpose is to facilitate right turns off the Memorial Bridge for people heading to the downtown area. The work done for the cut-through had a specific purpose, and it was done by the state. This is a city project that will enhance the work done by the state.
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose of using these bombs was to test their efficiency, not to kill Saddam.
It's precisely the opposite of the purpose of the land.
There are no community centers, no senior centers or youth centers. We have to serve all those purposes. We have become the community center, almost by default.
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
I believe there are similar class action rulings for settling purposes, but I agree that this seems to be the first ruling regarding New Jersey's CFA anywhere for a litigation class.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
We could pass an ordinance that accomplishes the same purpose. Then, it won't cost us anything.
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
In restaurants, you never have enough money, you're taking a very diverse group of people and building them into a team with a common purpose.
Why have one if you don't go by what they want If a committee comes up with a name and the board changes it because a couple of people said they don't like it, it defeats the purpose of having a committee.
It's House policy that no legislative resources be used for campaign purposes.
My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary.
With our limited understanding, often we do not agree with the time and the place and the manner in which men come and go. We see many live and prosper, who, according to our way of thinking may not deserve to do either. We see many die, who, in our judgment, have earned the right to live and whose presence among us is sorely needed. And if, with our limited perspective and understanding, we were called upon to give an explanation of the pattern of life and death as it daily takes shape before our eyes, we might be led to conclude that in it all there is lack of purpose, lack of justice, lack of consistency.
The fact that we're seeing some profit taking is a good thing. Yesterday, for all intents and purposes, was a win, in that we didn't sell off more after hitting those early week highs.
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.
I feel that text messaging defeats the purpose of the rule. Coaches aren't supposed to be talking to recruits on the phone, but they're still communicating with text-messaging. The spirit of the rule is so kids are not constantly talking on the phone, but now they're constantly text-messaging, and it's time consuming. They are constantly doing this stuff instead of whatever they have to do or want to do.
There have been a few who have lusted after the job, but the vice chairmen are chosen for different purposes. The Fed is broken down so that the chairman runs policy and handles external relations, while the vice chairman runs the banking and internal part of the organization, and those aren't the skills you look for in a chairman.
My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be.
Our strength is the diversity of our membership and our unity of purpose, ... Unity of purpose doesn't mean we are in lock step on every issue. Janet Murguia is a strong leader who reflects deep commitment to our values.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
In the field of criminal law, you'd have to move very carefully before you interfered with rules that have stood the test of time and were there for a very good purpose.
Ultimately we want to invest it so it generates income and then be able to use that income for a variety of purposes within the province.
Advertisers are already watching where people go on sites and now they're trying to get details of what is actually bought. Companies holding personal profiles should be required by law to handle the information with extreme care and only use it for the primary authorized purpose.
Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centered, self-reliant, and self-controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power, ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crises.
'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistryis not even a 'subject'but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.