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purposeful

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1. purposeful - Adjective

2. purposeful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Important; material.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why. Warren Weaver

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. Eric Hoffer

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. Wayne W. Dyer

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. Lester Bangs

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few. Lyndon B. Johnson

The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life. Wassily Kandinsky

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