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"The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance."	Akhenaton
"In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."	Albert Einstein
"Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent."	Andrew Alden
"[Congress is] functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."	Barber B. Conable, Jr
"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free."	Bhagavad Gita
"Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift (Rom. 12:6-8)."	Bruce Kemper
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."	Bruce Lee
"Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train."	Buddha
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."	Buddha
"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'"	Danielle Donoho
"We can be honest without saying what we mean to say, we can talk about the weather while ignoring the rain."	Danielle Donoho
"Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died."	David Grayson
"Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past."	Dean Koontz
"The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God."	Deepak K. Chopra
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."	Douglas Noel Adams
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)"	Dwight David Eisenhower
"It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best."	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws."	Edward Abbey
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Bruce Kemper	Buddha	Danielle Donoho
Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	David Grayson	Dean Koontz
Deepak K. Chopra	Douglas Noel Adams	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Dwight David Eisenhower	Edward Abbey	Edward M. Berckman
Eric Hoffer	Eugene E. Brussell	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	Galileo Galilei
Gary Harrington	Gene Brown	General Omar Nelson Bradley
Glenda Cloud	Henry Ward Beecher	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Madison	Jeane J. Kirkpatrick	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John K. Hutchens	Julius Henry Marx	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Maurice Godelier	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Native American	Pete Johnson	Prince Otto
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Robert Lee Frost	Roger Nash Baldwin
Samuel Butler	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sri da Avabhas	Terri Gulick	William Blake
William Hazlitt	William Ellery Channing	William Frank Buckley, Jr.
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