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• People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.211

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• I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

  Jonah Hill

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Jonah Hill Talks ‘The Sitter,’ Weight Loss And Disgust With Kardashians". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions

  Tom Rath

  Children, Unique, Parent

  Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton (2007). “How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

  Rembrandt

  Artist, Realizing, Finished

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• I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.

  Susanna Thompson

  College, Actors, Wanted

  "Susanna Thompson: ‘Arrow’ Star Talks Career And Staying Young". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.

  Gunter Brus

  Events, Body, Results

  Günter Brus, Centre Georges Pompidou (1993). “Limite du visible”

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• It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, People

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• We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.

  Ariel Sharon

  Military, Believe, Effort

  "Transcript: Ariel Sharon Interview", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2002.

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• We're now interested in finding those who may attack America and arrest them before they do. We've had over nearly a thousand people have been detained in America and questioned about their motives and their intentions.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, America, People

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• It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Order, Entrepreneur

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.75, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.

  George F. Kennan

  War, Thoughtful, Iraq

  "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq". historynewsnetwork.org. August 08, 2005.

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• My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that.

  Joseph Estrada

  June, Ends, Term

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• Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Attitude

  Karl Raimund Popper (1950). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”

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• Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.

  Tim Walberg

  Law, Innovation, Needs

  "Walberg Statement: Hearing on "The Fair Labor Standards Act: Is It Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First Century Economy?" As prepared for delivery". Committee Statements, edworkforce.house.gov. July 14, 2011.

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• The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Quality, Photograph

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.22, Macmillan

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• One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence that our world was created by divine intention, that a god intercedes in human affairs, or that there is life after death. Religion is a hangover from humankind's timorous infancy; it's time for us to walk upright and unafraid, and to take charge of our own lives.

  Simon LeVay

  Religious, Hangover, Thinking

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• Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Differences, Speaking Up, Attention

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• It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

  Richard Billingham

  Meaningful, Political, Shock

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• I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

  Pauline Marois

  Needs, Littles, Calm

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• At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Emotional, Skills

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• So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

  Paul Theroux

  Men, Istanbul, Sight

  Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

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• Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

  Christian Dior

  Beautiful, Instinct

  Marie France Pochna, Christian Dior (1996). “Dior”, Vendome Press

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• To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

  Sun Tzu

  Moving, Blood, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

  Thomas Keating

  Prayer, Expression, Attention

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• Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

  Charles Simonyi

  Real, Opposites, Today

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