It sounds snazzy, but is the phrase "all intents and purposes" redundant? "Intent" and "purpose" do not have precisely identical meanings, but in this particular usage I believe they do. Someone on WikiAnswers seems to agree with me and wrote the following in response to an inquiry regarding the idiom:
"If you have problems with to all intents and purposes bear in mind that in that expression intents is redundant."
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