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"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."	Bruce Lee
"A good intention clothes itself with power."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."	James Madison
"Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place."	Gene Brown
"All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love."	Sri da Avabhas
"Be intent upon the perfection of the present day."	William Law
"Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent."	Andrew Alden
"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional."	Glenda Cloud
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage."	William Ellery Channing
"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
"For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves."	Sir Francis Bacon
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."	Julius Henry Marx
"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free."	Bhagavad Gita
"History is a better guide than good intentions."	Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"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
"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
"I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."	Galileo Galilei
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."	Galileo Galilei
"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched."	John K. Hutchens
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Barber B. Conable, Jr	Bhagavad Gita	Bruce Lee
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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