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"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
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."	Samuel Butler
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage."	William Ellery Channing
"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
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional."	Glenda Cloud
"[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
"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
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
"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
"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
"A good intention clothes itself with power."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."	Robert Lee Frost
"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 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
"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free."	Bhagavad Gita
"The strongest and most effective [force] in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of … power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."	Maurice Godelier
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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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