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Image of Haruki Murakami
My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Haruki Murakami
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Gary Zukav
An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul. ... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms.
- Gary Zukav
Collection: Mean
Image of Thomas Sowell
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Mean
Image of Thomas Sowell
Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.
- Thomas Sowell
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Image of Ann Brashares
I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
- Ann Brashares
Collection: Mean
Image of Brother Lawrence
Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God''s presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?
- Brother Lawrence
Collection: Mean
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: Mean
Image of Mark Twain
I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Mean
Image of William Faulkner
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.
- William Faulkner
Collection: Mean
Image of Sylvester Stallone
I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.
- Sylvester Stallone
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Image of Sylvester Stallone
And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there.
- Sylvester Stallone
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Image of Michael Pollan
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.
- Michael Pollan
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Image of Ludwig Wittgenstein
For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Collection: Mean
Image of Ann Voskamp
Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
- Ann Voskamp
Collection: Mean
Image of Erwin W. Lutzer
Winning the world to Christ means winning individuals.
- Erwin W. Lutzer
Collection: Mean
Image of Darren Shan
Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Mean
Image of Darren Shan
There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Mean
Image of Henry David Thoreau
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right... Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Joe Biden
Sure, we have an obstacle, ISIS. They can do great damage. They can do great damage and they scare the living hell out of everybody with good reason. But they are, instead of dealing with nation-states that are arranged against us, we're to deal with non-state actors that can do damage to us. But this is within our control. We are beginning to make genuine progress as to how we isolate them, how we take them out. We're in a situation - I mean, I just could go on. But I am - the only generic criticism I had is we're not talking about the possibilities.
- Joe Biden
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Image of Karl Popper
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.
- Karl Popper
Collection: Mean
Image of John Waters
Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.
- John Waters
Collection: Mean
Image of John Waters
The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way.
- John Waters
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Image of Daniel Pinchbeck
Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.
- Daniel Pinchbeck
Collection: Mean
Image of John Steinbeck
..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Mean
Image of John Steinbeck
Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Mean
Image of Ben Stein
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.
- Ben Stein
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Image of George Orwell
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
- George Orwell
Collection: Mean
Image of Ezra Taft Benson
The expression "follow the Brethren" has a broader meaning than some would apply to it. It means not only to agree with the counsel given to the Church by the Brethren, but also to follow their example in appearance and deportment.
- Ezra Taft Benson
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Image of Mark Twain
Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Christian Nestell Bovee
When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
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Image of Evan Rachel Wood
With bisexuality, there's so much out there in terms of what that means and there are so many definitions, and it's about finding out what's right for you.
- Evan Rachel Wood
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Image of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Image of John Stott
Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
- John Stott
Collection: Mean
Image of Howard Zinn
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.
- Howard Zinn
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Image of Michael Moorcock
Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
- Michael Moorcock
Collection: Mean
Image of Michael Moorcock
Everything means nothing that is the only truth.
- Michael Moorcock
Collection: Mean
Image of Libba Bray
But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.
- Libba Bray
Collection: Mean
Image of Itzhak Perlman
If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting.
- Itzhak Perlman
Collection: Mean
Image of Rachel Caine
Better be," Eve said. She mock-bit at his finger. "I could totally date somebody else, you know." "And I could rent out your room." "And I could put your game console on eBay." "Hey," Shane protested. "Now you're just being mean.
- Rachel Caine
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Image of Blaise Pascal
The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Mean
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Image of Mark Twain
Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Barack Obama
This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Desmond Tutu
You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity.
- Desmond Tutu
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Image of Desmond Tutu
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.
- Desmond Tutu
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Image of Simone de Beauvoir
To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Image of Joyce Meyer
Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.
- Joyce Meyer
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Image of Flannery O'Connor
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: Mean