“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
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