Instead, a worthwhile mission transcends individual differences in the service of a higher collective goal.

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Their collective goal is to woo retailers into carrying their products.

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While the collective has no single unifying goal, those associated with Anomymous often work against what they consider censorship, hypocrisy and heavy-handedness by governments around the world.

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As cogs in a larger, purposeful machine, people become alienated from the traditional morals that guide human relationships as they pursue the goal of the collective organisation.

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Rules about who fights whom and what weapons you can use (if any) vary from place to place, but the general gist remains the same, as does the expected goal of social catharsis and the collective venting of pent-up steam.

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The leaders will have one goal, and that is to achieve our collective vision of a world free of nuclear weapons.

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The declaration commits the 11 signatory nations to a goal of carbon neutrality, even though their collective carbon emissions are a tiny fraction of the global total.

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Robinho almost grabbed the goal Milan craved as the tie entered stoppage time, but to the collective relief of Spurs and their supporters he was high with his fizzing drive - and moments later the party started.

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The goal was to help them understand their patterns of behavior, both individual and collective, and then change them.

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