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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
I'm not going to be mean to anybody.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Ronald Reagan
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.
- Ronald Reagan
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Image of Billy Wilder
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
- Billy Wilder
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul Valery
to live means to lack something at every moment
- Paul Valery
Collection: Mean
Image of Haruki Murakami
I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I get are wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this can't catch her.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Ryan Reynolds
You have to really make sure that every moment means something, and that every moment, there's a purpose for it. And then you have to blend it all together without it looking like you're really focusing on it. That, to me, was the magic trick that was most difficult for the film [Buried].
- Ryan Reynolds
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Image of Rick Warren
To me, thinking with the mind of Christ means to be thinking in light of eternity, which is what Colossians is all about; and that our lives are hid with Christ in God and that eternity, we're going to spend far more time on the other side of death than this side.
- Rick Warren
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Image of Jessica Sorensen
People say that time heals all wounds, and maybe they're right. But whit if the wounds don't heal correctly, like when cuts leave behind nasty scars, or when broken bones mend together, but aren't as smooth anymore? Does it mean they're really healed? Or is it that the body did what it could to fix what broke.
- Jessica Sorensen
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Image of Ralph Marston
You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them.
- Ralph Marston
Collection: Mean
Image of Lily Tomlin
Thank God kids never mean well
- Lily Tomlin
Collection: Mean
Image of Red Skelton
I just want to be known as a clown because to me, that's the height of my profession. It means you can do everything - sing, dance and, above all, make people laugh.
- Red Skelton
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Image of Rick Warren
Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
- Rick Warren
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Image of Timothy Keller
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
- Timothy Keller
Collection: Mean
Image of Moby
I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.
- Moby
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Tiger Woods
In golf, just because a person is big and cut and ripped, doesn't mean they have a physical advantage.
- Tiger Woods
Collection: Mean
Image of Elie Wiesel
I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Georges Bernanos
The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.
- Georges Bernanos
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Image of Virginia Woolf
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.
- Virginia Woolf
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Image of Richard M. Nixon
They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before.
- Richard M. Nixon
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Image of Ayn Rand
An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Ariel Sharon
I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.
- Ariel Sharon
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Image of Harry S. Truman
(The AMA is) "just another mean trust."
- Harry S. Truman
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Image of Stefan Zweig
Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.
- Stefan Zweig
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Image of Zach Braff
I mean, I know thousands of people died and everything, but if it happened today, there's just no excuse. They'd be much safer inside a movie theater watching one of my movies instead of burning alive in a collapsing skyscraper.
- Zach Braff
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Image of Mark Shields
Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign of my moral deficiency, if I would deal with someone like that. It's a terrible thing to do.
- Mark Shields
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Image of Francis Schaeffer
‎People have presuppositions... By 'presuppositions' we mean the basic way that an individual looks at life- his worldview. The grid through which he sees the world. Presuppositions rest upon that which a person considers to be the truth of what exists. A person's presuppositions provide the basis for their values- and therefore the basis for their decisions.
- Francis Schaeffer
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Horatio Nelson
The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
- Horatio Nelson
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Image of Elie Wiesel
The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism and to Tibet. It's not only because of the Dalai Lama. It's because of what Tibet represents. There is a vast reservoir of knowledge, of mystical knowledge, which can be found in Tibet.The Chinese shouldn't be afraid of that really. They have other means of survival.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Elie Wiesel
God means movement, and not explanation.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Jose Saramago
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
- Jose Saramago
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Image of Jose Saramago
The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.
- Jose Saramago
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Image of Jim Morrison
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
- Jim Morrison
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Ayn Rand
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of David Hawkins
We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings the purpose.
- David Hawkins
Collection: Mean
Image of Edward Abbey
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
- Edward Abbey
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Image of Joyce Meyer
Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.
- Joyce Meyer
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Image of Moliere
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
- Moliere
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Image of Darynda Jones
What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.
- Darynda Jones
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Image of J. K. Rowling
I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of J. K. Rowling
Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Edward Snowden
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.
- Edward Snowden
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Image of Pierre Trudeau
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
- Pierre Trudeau
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Image of Pierre Trudeau
I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
- Pierre Trudeau
Collection: Mean