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"One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob him. One's own intention does the stealing; the thief is simply instrumental (nimit) in that. Really, the account is one's own."

"Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance."

"It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms."

"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."

"Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet."

"The power of intention can open the door of opportunity and transform a valley of trouble into a triumph of joy."

"Being proactive and intentional will enable you to create a positive experience for yourself and others."
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"Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind."

"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub."

"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."

"What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way."

"To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things."

"Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names."
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