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Understanding oneself is only half the equation; the other half blooms in the intention and resonance we cultivate in others.
Author:
Clara Aspen
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Within the silences between thoughts, our subconscious paints clear direction; intuition needs only the stillness of our mind to etch the path daylight cannot reveal.
Author:
Elise Hart
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Embracing fewer belongings shatters the illusion of freedom in variety, revealing that true liberation lies not in possessions but in intentional choices.
Author:
Linnea Hart
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Choosing less can paradoxically unleash the weight of responsible making; for in every action deprived of options lies an electric hiddenignment.
Author:
Silas Teilen
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Interweaving intentions with our impulses birthed this digital realm; suggest a searching heart and the art of pause becomes our compass in crowded screens.
Author:
Elira Chen
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Digital spaces can be enchanted doorways when filled with intention, turning idle scrolling into meaningful exploration.
Author:
Maya Lieber
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Embracing technology with intention transforms screens into mirrors, reflecting not just our data but our values.
Author:
Aurora Stimuli
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Being mindful in our use of technology is like choosing whole foods for thought; intention shapes depth, not merely variety.
Author:
Ava Crowley
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Mindful tech use isn't just about moderation; it's about our intention defining our connection with the world.
Author:
Clara Zucker
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To browse without purpose is to drift in a digital sea; intention is the anchor that turns tides both within and beyond.
Author:
Clara Jennings
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To sequence your days with intention creates a symphony of both the noble and subtle notes of joy; each harmonious decision allows life to live within you.
Author:
Aveline Solicars
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You paint the beauty of your days with the strokes of intention and heart; every moment becomes a masterpiece of existence.
Author:
Clara Simmons
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Building moments with bricks of intention is the architecture of a good life.
Author:
Amelia Hart
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Readying our hearts like beaches kissed warm by the sun, not just our dread of shirts or scattered schedules.
Author:
Eleanor Daysun
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Success is not defined by the speed of your accomplishments, but by the impact of your intentions.
Author:
Mia Rodriguez
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It is our intentions that shape our reality, not just our actions.
Author:
Sophia Wright
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Our thoughts plant the seeds for our future; water them with intention and watch them grow into reality.
Author:
Maya Rivera
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Let your actions speak louder than your words, and watch your impact outshine your intentions.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Author:
Michael York
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My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Author:
Stand Watie
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If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
Author:
Stand Watie
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Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
Author:
Thomas Sydenham
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.
Author:
Peter Stuyvesant
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On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
Author:
Charles Sturt
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My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.
Author:
Peter Straub
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When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
Author:
Kate Smith
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.
Author:
Moshe Sharett
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Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
Author:
John Shadegg
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.
Author:
Jon Secada
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With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.
Author:
Jon Secada
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However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
Author:
James Schuyler
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
Author:
Bob Schaffer
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One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.
Author:
Brandon Routh
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However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.
Author:
Donna Rice
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Author:
Maurice Ravel
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.
Author:
Isaac Pitman
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I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.
Author:
Paul O'Neill
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Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.
Author:
Paul O'Neill
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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
Author:
Kevin Mitnick
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In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.
Author:
James Meade
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I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
Author:
Joel McHale
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I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
Author:
George McGovern
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Author:
Ian Mcewan
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In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.
Author:
Michael McCaul
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My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
Author:
Mary MacLane
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.
Author:
Alex Lifeson
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He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
Author:
John Leguizamo
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This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.
Author:
Wilfrid Laurier
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Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
Author:
Jonny Lang
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The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
Author:
Calvin Klein
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
Author:
Walt Kelly
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
Author:
E. Jones
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It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
Author:
Robert Jenkins
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Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.
Author:
Maurice Jarre
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The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.
Author:
Jim Jarmusch
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Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.
Author:
Laura Innes
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Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.
Author:
Lauren Hutton
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
Author:
David Hume
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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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The light of intent can navigate the labyrinth of chance, sometimes obscuring other paths that musicians' hands are more intended to explore.
Author:
Celia Heartstring
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Life is most vibrant when the compass of intentionality spins freely amid the subdued currents of happenstance.
Author:
Clara Jensen
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In the equilibrium between intention and fortuity, hidden openings collide, allowing us to venture not just where we predict to go, but to new terrains our minds had not dared imagine.
Author:
Elara Chen
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Chance encounters ember mosaic; entwined by intention yet unpredictable threads forge our someday wishes.
Author:
Isla Nakamura
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Harnessing chance while dappled in the scaffolding of intention captures the essence of innovation - an art balanced delicately between purpose and surprise.
Author:
Clara Maiden
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He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
Author:
Benny Green
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It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
Author:
Brendan Gill
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I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
Author:
Alberto Giacometti
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I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Author:
Paul Getty
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I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.
Author:
Steven Gerrard
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I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.
Author:
Francois Gautier
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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Author:
Helen Garner
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And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
Author:
Jerry Garcia
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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
Author:
Victor Garber
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
Author:
Victor Garber
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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
Author:
Jodie Foster
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Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
Author:
John Ford
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I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.
Author:
Richard Ernst
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They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.
Author:
Rahm Emanuel
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Author:
T. Eliot
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
Author:
Elizabeth Edwards
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Our intention creates our reality.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.
Author:
Stephen Donaldson
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Author:
Don DeLillo
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Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
Author:
Len Deighton
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I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that.
Author:
Gray Davis
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.
Author:
Hugh Dancy
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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Author:
Christopher Columbus
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Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
Author:
Robin Collingwood
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I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
Author:
Gary Coleman
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Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.
Author:
Joel Coen
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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.
Author:
Jeb Bush
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Author:
John Burroughs
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Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
Author:
Bill Bruford
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I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
Author:
Frederick Borden
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There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.
Author:
John Bonham
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It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Author:
Michael Bolton
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
Author:
Hans Blix
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I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.
Author:
Edward Blake
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Author:
Otto Bismarck
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Author:
Otto Bismarck
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
Author:
Henri Bergson
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I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
Author:
Sean Bean
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Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
Author:
Peter Bart
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The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
Author:
Roger Baldwin
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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
Author:
Mary Austin
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Author:
Sidney Altman
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Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
Author:
Rick Allen
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The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
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Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
Author:
Sheldon Adelson
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Author:
Ansel Adams
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In the fragile exhalation of fleeting moments, where brush meets soul, chaos becomes the finest ingredients for an already masterful equation, breathed onto the canvas only when time permits us the dance of genuine human intention.
Author:
Maya Celius
