So what exactly is this mysterious insurance score, and what exactly is its reason and purpose?

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What we really want is not selfish self-consciousness but selfless spontaneity, and the reason why purpose is so motivating is it draws us up and out of ourselves to a place where we escape our petty prison of selfishness.

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And a strong environmental ethic has no equal for attracting and motivating good people, galvanizing them around a shared higher purpose, and giving them a powerful reason to join and to stay.

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The purpose of the General Welfare clause is to provide a reason, motivation, and purpose to the proper exercise of the Powers the Constitution specifically grants to Congress.

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Passion which is balanced by perspective and reason can reveal purpose, but passion absent those filters can just as easily impede purpose.

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There's little reason for new vendors to try and tackle the general-purpose PDA, as Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) and Sony have that market--at least as far as the Palm OS world is concerned--to themselves, while Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people ) has been producing Palm OS devices that double as phones.

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Pressed by the prosecution, Frank said he had seen no reason to believe that anything had been done on purpose by his Marines and that no law of war violation had occurred.

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Eva felt cheated, as if Harley had tricked her on purpose and the thought scared her, because, if he had, what reason could there be except that he knew how she felt about him and was mocking her?

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Mr. JIM BOGART (Leader, Grower-Shipper Association): The industry and this association, in particular, are very sympathetic as for the reason or purpose of the march.

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