It would be a tragedy to go your entire life as a "hammer" doing the job of a "screwdriver". Everybody has a purpose and a reason they were created.

如果你明明是“锤子”却做着“螺丝刀”的工作，那将是一个悲剧。每个人都有一个他们被创造的目标和理由。

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Releves may be undertaken without classification as a purpose.

样地记录表可以在分类范围之外按照任一意图进行。

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Education should be seen as a tool towards doing something good with your life; not as a purpose in itself.

应把教育视为达到人生目的的工具，决非目的本身。

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is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

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In a for-profit corporation, the purpose of the entity is defined as profit for the shareholders.

在一家盈利性公司中,公司的目的是为股东谋求利益

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Inutile loveliness" is kind of the key word of Nabokov's technique, and he says the novel has as its only purpose to provide aesthetic bliss. So, here is inutile loveliness coming just from seeing the landscape as a stranger.

无用的可爱“是纳博科夫技巧的一个,关键词，他说小说只有一个目的，那就是提供,美学狂喜，所以这里的“无用的可爱“,是把风景当做一个陌生人看待。

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Man is as much a rule-following animal as a purpose-seeking one.

FORBES: The Order of Public Reason

When I treated the interview more as a conversation with a purpose than as a sterile interrogation, the tone of the exchange softened.

FORBES: How A Leader Invites People's Best Thinking

After all, what would justify suddenly standing firm for decreased spending after he has instructed everyone all these years that it is right to yield on fundamentals for piecemeal results, which Kristol always finds a way to portray as a greater purpose?

FORBES: William Kristol's Acceptance Of The Mess Is Wholly Unacceptable