A Quote by J. L. Carr

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

J. L. Carr

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J. L. Carr
English - Novelist
May 20, 1912 - February 26, 1994

Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles.

Sascha Radetsky

Possessions aren't my raison d'etre.

Mick Hucknall

It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career.

Frederick Lenz

I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

Steven Chu

Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

Steven Chu

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Aristotle

Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre.

Frederick Lenz

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Netanyahu's raison d'etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I have seen it up close.

Naftali Bennett

Your business needs a raison d'être. Be prepared to work 24 hours a day, and be willing to take risks. And you have to love it or you won't succeed.

Josie Natori

The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an unappealing landscape for artists.

Marianne Elliott

Trying to demonstrate good leadership was not our raison d'etre. We're still just trying to make a comedy.

Brendan Hunt

It's not going to be my political raison d'etre, I think it would be presumptuous to take a leadership role. But I would want to make sure that we support equality.

Crispin Blunt

I come from a long line of very strong, tough women. We stick to our principles and stand up for what we believe in, which is fundamental fairness, which is my raison d'etre.

Letitia James

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

Bertrand Russell

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