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• My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

  Ovid

  Change, Body, Form

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• My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

  James Joyce

  Country, Writing, Men

  "A brief survey of the short story part 32: James Joyce" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

  Mason Cooley

  Beauty, Guarantees, World

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• I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.

  Robert Benchley

  Dance, People, Theatre

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• In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reading, Finals, Literature

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Pain, Work, Skills

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.

  Raymond Williams

  Art, Independent, Kind

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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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• Life proceeds out of your intention. Your true intention is revealed by your actions, and your actions are determined by your true intention. As with everything in life (and life itself), it is a circle.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Circles, Determined

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.697, Penguin

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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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• A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

  Karl Kraus

  Criticism, Abbreviations, Artistic

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• ... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, School, College

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• Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

  Rory Vaden

  Procrastination, Results, Indulgence

  Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.113, Penguin

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• A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.

  Andrew Harvey

  Spiritual, Suicidal, Self

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• Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.

  Chris Mars

  Character, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.

  Megan Fox

  News Stories, Matter, Ridiculous

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Independent, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For me, making a lot of dramas on one side it's a different sort of challenge, and on the other, it's not a challenge at all, meaning that my goal is to try and bring the realism and acting you might find in a straight drama with the intentions and conflict, where it doesn't feel tongue-in-cheek, but rather committed and real.

  James Mangold

  Drama, Real, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

  Genevieve

  Writing, Self, Influence

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• Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Mind, Feels

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 15, 2013

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• We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Writing, Mean, Eye

  Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Gregory of Nyssa Collection [7 Books]”, p.817, Aeterna Press

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• The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

  Allan Bloom

  Men, Expectations, Unity

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.

  Lionel

  Lust, Desire, Literature

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• Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Thinking, Medicine

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• Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Thinking, Want

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