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• Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Rose, Taste, Firsts

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1283, Delphi Classics

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• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Self, Genius, Inconsiderate

  Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”

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• Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

  Kevin Gates

  Detours, Poverty, Environment

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• My main intention was to not only create collections that defined myself and style, but to also create things that my fans identify with me and feel a belonging to.

  Ashley Purdy

  Style, Fans, Feels

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Use, Language

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• I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Memories, Memorable

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• I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

  Stephen King

  Thematic

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.

  Deepak Chopra

  Body, Want, Toes

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• There are two components to biological information in the body, one is intention, the other is attention.

  Deepak Chopra

  Two, Attention, Body

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Turkeys, People, Culture

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• My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

  Mark McMorris

  African American, Identity, Labels

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens... this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.

  Stephen King

  Degrees, Stories, Way

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.

  Dean Spade

  Racism, Groups, Doctrine

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Shutting Down, Mergers

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• It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

  Dan Mangan

  Giving, Challenges, Ongoing

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the body to reach the level of cooperation with the soul. When we fast, our intention is not to torture the body but to shun its behaviour. Thus, one who fasts becomes a spiritual and not a physical person. Fasting is an ascetic soul which takes the body with it as its partner in asceticism.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, People, Soul

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• Do not lose your temper with those who sin. Do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbor and judging it, as we usually do. Everyone will give an answer for himself before God. Especially, do not look with evil intention on the sins of those older than you, with whom you have no business. But correct your own sins, your own heart.

  John of Kronstadt

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be according to your will, because a man does not know what is profitable for him. But say to God: Let Thy will be done! For He does everything for our benefit.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Views, Use

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.23, Verso

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• My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

  George Soros

  Lifetime, Originals

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Religious, Mistake

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• Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

  Adam Smith

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Liberty

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2 (1776) See Adam Smith 1

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• Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.

  Sam Harris

  Children, Differences, Parent

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• Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Fear, Generosity

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