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The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures.
John Drane
Life
Appropriate
Ways
Significance
Would
Would-Be
Selective
Written
Gospels
Demonstrate
Were
His
Cultures
Accounts
Intended
Same
Different
Different Cultures
Teachings
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Jesus
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Newman
Great
Hazards
Intended
Ends
'Battlestar Galactica' executive producer Ronald D. Moore told Tor.com that the series finale of 'Battlestar' turned out exactly as he'd intended, but there were several alternate endings that were considered before the final version was produced.
John Joseph Adams
Before
Final
Finale
Considered
Several
Battlestar Galactica
Out
Moore
Exactly
He
Executive
Executive Producer
Alternate
Were
Version
Intended
Endings
Galactica
Turned
Produced
Producer
Series
My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.
John Kricfalusi
Everybody
Cartoons
Make
Audience
Intended
Human
Just
Want
Human Beings
Beings
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
John Podhoretz
Positive
Political
Care
Politicians
Our
Way
Characterize
Folk
About
Only
Days
Talk
Parties
Messaging
Lot
Efforts
Intended
Which
Show
Describe
Designed
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
John Polkinghorne
Life
God
Nature
Christ
Creation
Churches
Eastern
Through
Divine
Divine Nature
Share
Maintained
Always
However
Intended
Eventually
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin
Work
Men
Tools
Perfect
Were
Accuracy
Intended
Precise
Actions
Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.
John Shelby Spong
History
People
Characters
Never
Gospel
Real
Understood
Were
Author
Real People
Intended
Literary
Creations
Pages
Who
Many
Appear
Lived
Actually
Fourth
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill
Happiness
Pain
Pleasure
Promote
Absence
Tend
Proportion
Wrong
Reverse
Intended
Produce
Actions
Right
The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
John Sulston
Rights
Car
Myth
Important
Corn
Our
Marketplace
Inventors
Castles
Investment
Supposedly
IP
Clinic
Encourage
Intended
Oil
Products
Bring
Needed
At the very least, we want everything to go on hold for a while because there is this feeling that we're heading down a path in a way that we never, ever intended when we were 18 and dreaming of what life would be like.
Jonathan Coleman
Life
Path
Feeling
Down
Everything
Way
Would
Would-Be
Dreaming
Never
Heading
Like
Because
Least
Go
Were
Very
Intended
Want
Hold
While
Ever
I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.
Jonathan Vilma
Game
Money
Pay
Other
Out
Never
Knocking
Kurt
Intended
Any
Warner
Paid
Amount
Player
Championship
Playoff
I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hurt another player. I also never put any money into a bounty pool or helped to create a bounty pool intended to pay out money for injuring other players.
Jonathan Vilma
Hurt
Money
Pool
Pay
Other
Out
Never
Put
Bounty
Also
Another
Intended
Any
Intentionally
Create
Helped
Teammate
Injuring
Player
Players
Set
I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
Jonathan Winters
Writing
Comedy
Become
Painting
Older
Kid
Pretty
Had
Part
Most
Ball
Doing
Up
Get
Intended
Ended
Done
Just
Much
Having inched closer and accomplished some of my major goals in the sport of golf, no pun intended, why not work as hard as I can to attain those goals if I'm already feeling like I'm playing well and getting more and more comfortable.
Jordan Spieth
Work
Goals
Feeling
Pun
Those
Some
Having
More
More And More
Attain
Major
Like
Sport
Well
Comfortable
Accomplished
Intended
Closer
Getting
Golf
Hard
Why
Why Not
Playing
The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.
Joseph Brodsky
Nothing
Intended
Ever
Career
I never intended to only do dark, serious things.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Dark
Only
Never
Intended
Serious
Things
If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything that went on camera was what I intended to go on camera.
Joshua Jackson
Work
You
Everything
Fine
Like
Because
Felt
Affair
Go
Camera
Intended
Stand
I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
Joshua Malina
School
Old
Community
Musicals
Kind
Pursue
Never
Had
Most
Period
Sort
Always
Doing
Camp
Intended
Any
Just
Wanted
Theater
Whole
Actor
Enjoyed
Plays
Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?
Joyce Carol Oates
Black
Girl
Relations
More
Generally
Know
Also
Well
Another
How
Least
Yes
Comment
Survivor
America
Intended
Race
Might
Race Relations
Roommates
Novel
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Karl Philipp Moritz
Morning
Me
Son
Walk
Clever
Yesterday
Kind
Windsor
Could
Host
He
Road
Leading
Venture
Boy
Still
However
Surprise
His
Intended
Send
Oxford
As Far As
Little
Far
Richmond
Show
Farther
Express
Sufficiently
I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
Karl Schroeder
Time
Rich
Out
Curiously
Intended
Famous
Pan
By The Time
Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
Katee Sackhoff
Friendship
Remember
Long
First
Robot
Other
Pun
Our
Out
About
He
Known
Because
How
Came
Chicken
Green
Trying
Intended
Egg
Figure
Each
I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.
Kenneth C. Griffin
Myself
You
Political
Impossible
Politician
Action
Think
Favor
Would
Would-Be
Find
Firm
Look
Discussing
Intended
Any
Either
Which
Realm
Specifically
I had never intended to be a stay-at-home-mom.
Kim Brooks
Never
Had
Intended
What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
Kurt Huber
Words
Simple
Political
Organization
Deficiencies
Our
Solely
System
Moral
Insight
Simple Words
Student
Student Body
Accomplish
Existing
Intended
Political System
Urge
Them
Body
Means
Serious
Rouse
Violence
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