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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.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Men, Passivity Is

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• Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

  Gary Zukav

  Acting, Caretaking, Caregiving

  "Why Painful Things Happen to Good People" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without any fear, by dishonoring him through sin that they could abstain from, if they wanted. But they neither abstain from sin nor are they ashamed of their already committed sins, for they do not take into consideration their unworthiness of the kindness of the one whom they do not serve.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Kindness, People, Sin

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• One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Quality, I've Learned, Term

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• The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

  Chris Crutcher

  Believe, Character, Redemption

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• We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Sitting, Where You Are

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• Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that His Kingdom was not of this world; that His doctrine was a doctrine of the Cross; and that their professing themselves to be His followers, would call them to a constant state of voluntary suffering and self-denial.

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Blessed, Eye

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.455, CCEL

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• There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• The Secret's message is to empower people. Its message releases people from feeling like victims and gives them the knowledge to intentionally create their lives the way they want.

  Rhonda Byrne

  People, Giving, Empowering

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• The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective, legislation has now gone so far that it may well be asked what purpose or plan there is or what possible outcome there can be from a system that confines the native within a legal status that has more in common with that of a born idiot than of any other class of British subject.

  Paul Hasluck

  Leadership, Class, Purpose

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• I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

  Sitting Bull

  Im Sorry, Native American, I Am Sorry

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• Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and abundant technological know-how, in which some terrorists clearly state their intention to inflict catastrophic casualties. Were such an attack to occur, it would not only cause widespread death and destruction, but would stagger the world economy... [creating] a second death toll throughout the developing world.

  Kofi Annan

  Nuclear Terrorism, Creating, Wish

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• It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Effort, Done, Links

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Care, Good Intentions

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• Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all

  Levi Eshkol

  War, Government, Israel

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• Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

  Abba Eban

  War, Doubt, Cairo

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• By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Morning, Motivation

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• I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

  John Travolta

  Fall, Long, Right Thing

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• Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.

  Timothy Miller

  Attention, Reservations, Here And Now

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• Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

  Pablo Picasso

  Important, Doe, Want

  Hélène Parmelin, Pablo Picasso (1965). “Picasso; the artist and his model: and other recent works”

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• Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else shaytan will lead your heart and mind astray.

  Omar Suleiman

  Heart, Mind, Deeds

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Dec 19, 2012

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• God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Fire, People, Ordinary

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year”, p.15, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing art for the right reasons, um, and with the best intentions. Anything at all is completely possible and I think that's what I like about drawing. I think it's just really fun. You can do anything you want. And that's part of, like, what's really enjoyable about it... is kind of losing yourself in it.

  Gerard Way

  Art, Fun, Thinking

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• Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy, add new information, and manifest whatever we want, need, or desire. Abundance is unlimited, unbounded, and always available.

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Energy, Add

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• Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

  Dave Ramsey

  Character, Evil, Moral

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