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"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."
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"Does your tone match your intention? Is your tone of voice confusing or clarifying? Are you coming across to others as you had hoped? Once you begin to notice your tone, you can adjust as needed to make it work in your favor."
"The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective."
"Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy."
"The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing."
"I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy."
"Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent."
"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."
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
"When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves."
"In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs."
"You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."
"In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside."
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