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Image of John Stuart Mill
Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.
- John Stuart Mill
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Image of Peter Singer
If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.
- Peter Singer
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Image of Hunter S. Thompson
I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.
- Hunter S. Thompson
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Image of Anne McCaffrey
I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
- Anne McCaffrey
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Image of Wallace D. Wattles
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.
- Wallace D. Wattles
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Image of Darynda Jones
I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.
- Darynda Jones
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Image of Darynda Jones
Having Reyes so near is painful. I think it has apoplexy." "Do you even know what that means?" "No, but it sounds serious. Like Ebola. Or hives
- Darynda Jones
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Image of Susan Sontag
And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Elisabeth Elliot
In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
- Elisabeth Elliot
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Image of Bob Goff
Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.
- Bob Goff
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Image of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Image of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Image of Kiera Cass
if you love me, love me now. dont hold yourself so badly until tears starts to mean nothing
- Kiera Cass
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Image of N. T. Wright
Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’
- N. T. Wright
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Image of Rajneesh
Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Rajneesh
If you are going towards the easy, the ego starts dying. And when there is no ego left, you have arrived to your reality - the right, the truth. And truth and right have to be natural. Easy means natural; you can find them without any effort. Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Joel Salatin
'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
- Joel Salatin
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Image of Maggie Stiefvater
Something tells me my spit wouldn't mean as much to Corr as yours would." There's a long Pause before Sean speaks. He says, "Maybe not yet." Yet! I don't think I've ever heard such a fine word before.
- Maggie Stiefvater
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Image of Condoleezza Rice
We have our differences with Russia. And some of those differences produce conflict. But by no means is this the Soviet Union. We have far more areas of cooperation with Russia than we have areas of conflict.
- Condoleezza Rice
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Image of John Travolta
You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.
- John Travolta
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Image of Steven Soderbergh
I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.
- Steven Soderbergh
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Image of Terry Pratchett
There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out there is bad - but there has been a lot of bad fantasy written by people who read a lot of fantasy and so all they keep doing is recycling it.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Paul Walker
I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.
- Paul Walker
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Image of Marquis de Sade
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.
- Marquis de Sade
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Image of Albert Pike
We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
- Albert Pike
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Image of Kristen Stewart
I learn a lot with actors that I don't think are good. Every experience shapes you. I've had experiences with actresses - and I say actresses because there's just a woman thing - that have achieved what she's achieved, by means that I can't understand.
- Kristen Stewart
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Image of Robert Reich
I think it's hard to have a brand portal and an economy of trustworthiness in one of them that sloshes over into another. But saying that there will be only a limited number of these giant brand portals doesn't mean a limited number of companies; it doesn't mean that everybody's going to be working for these companies. Quite the opposite. Most of us will be working through much smaller entities that simply use these portals as vehicles for getting and identifying customers.
- Robert Reich
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Image of Max Muller
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
- Max Muller
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of Edward Snowden
The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.
- Edward Snowden
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Image of Annie Besant
Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.
- Annie Besant
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Image of John Dufresne
With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.
- John Dufresne
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Image of Dennis Prager
Just because you cannot fight every evil does not mean you should fight no evils.
- Dennis Prager
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Image of Madame de Stael
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
- Madame de Stael
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Image of Jeremy Rifkin
If I were Mark Zuckerberg or any of these guys, I would say, "My God. How does the world expect us to deal with this?" I mean, it's too big a responsibility; I think they're going to welcome this. They'll maybe keep it in the private sector, but they'll welcome some form of regulatory operation because they've been so successful that they are a global, public good. Everyone needs them.
- Jeremy Rifkin
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Image of Van Morrison
We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.
- Van Morrison
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Image of Henri Nouwen
Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
- Henri Nouwen
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Image of Barack Obama
Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Jane Yolen
The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?
- Jane Yolen
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Image of Bertrand Russell
...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no absolute morality, that moralities are sets of social conventions devised by humans to satisfy their needs.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Ron Paul
What we need to do is not only live within our means, but start paying down the deficit, and offer an opportunity at least for the next generation to get out.
- Ron Paul
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Image of Daniel Keyes
I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon as “exceptional” begins to mean anything to anyone they’ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. “Exceptional” refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I’ve been exceptional.
- Daniel Keyes
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Image of Robert Motherwell
For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.
- Robert Motherwell
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Image of Henry Miller
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
- Henry Miller
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Image of Donald Trump
I don't use Richard Nixon as necessarily the guide, OK. I mean, you know, it's an interesting person to use, but don't use it.
- Donald Trump
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Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Image of Fanny Fern
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
- Fanny Fern
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Image of Fanny Fern
It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.
- Fanny Fern
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