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«When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.»
«Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
directing, domestic, intends, intention, invisible hand, preferring, promote, promoting, public interest, The Public Interest
«This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her intelligence, or raising her heart to serious things, not of widening her field of ambitions, dethroning man»
Author: Christine de Pisan
| Keywords:
ambitions, dethrone, dethroned, dethroning, developing, intends, raising, scholarship, to be sure
«Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Animals,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
friendly, intends, The Victims, victims
«Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.»
Author: Bill Vaughn
| About:
Animals,
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
efficient, intends, interplanetary, interplanetary space, The Animal
«The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.»
«Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.»
«Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
hallmark, inessential, intends, translation, translations, transmit, transmitting
«It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.»
«A dog that intends to bite does not bear its teeth.»
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