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Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.Collection: Mean
I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.Collection: Mean
There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.Collection: Mean
Justified means just as if you've never sinned.Collection: Mean
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.Collection: Mean
We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.Collection: Mean
Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion looked like bogies.Collection: Mean
An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?" "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?" "Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..." "I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.Collection: Mean
Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.Collection: Mean
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.Collection: Mean
What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.Collection: Mean
I think the appropriate kind of skepticism is this: you've got to be asking questions all the time, you've also got to make sure that you're doing so in the spirit of genuinely wanting to find the answers - and that also means being open. I battle with this: I know I tend to be very skeptical and as a result, I veer towards the dismissive. But being aware of the tendency, I like to challenge my own skepticism and make sure it's not just knee-jerk. You need to be skeptical towards yourself as well. When you're only skeptical outwards you've got an unbalanced skepticism.Collection: Mean
"If we had not created a set of people against another the world would have been corrupt", and "against" here means two things: Against in the fact that they are challenging you with their diversity, challenging your intelligence and to challenge is not negative, it can be very positive depending on how you are challenged.Collection: Mean
God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.Collection: Mean
A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.Collection: Mean
It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.Collection: Mean
Modernization means Westernization.Collection: Mean
Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.Collection: Mean
People are only mean when they are threatened.Collection: Mean
I think freedom means freedom for everybody.Collection: Mean
Learning means making errors. Those who are learning spiritually make errors just the way anyone does when he is growing.Collection: Mean
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.Collection: Mean
Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?Collection: Mean
Shotgun!" announced Clary as Jace came back around the side of the van. Alec grabbed for his bow, strapped across his back. "Where?" "She means she wants the front seat," said Jace, pushing wet hair out of his eyes.Collection: Mean
Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?Collection: Mean
Having kids means there's always someone around to blame your fart on.Collection: Mean
In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.Collection: Mean
If you think, what was the last really big, big accomplishment for the nation that came purely out of the legislature? It might be the Americans with Disabilities Act. I mean that really was a legislative creation.Collection: Mean
We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.Collection: Mean
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is aliveCollection: Mean
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.Collection: Mean
My definition of prosperity would be quite different than what most people probably imagine or think, because I think that a wholeness word that means nothing missing, nothing broken. It's not finances or materialism.Collection: Mean
If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then it is a precedent that is protected.Collection: Mean
You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cellphones or the Internet?Collection: Mean
People are watching TV, they're watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there's a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.Collection: Mean
Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.Collection: Mean
When you look at the whole package of energy, the food you eat should match the story you want to live, which means: as fresh as possible, without dullness, repetition, and routine. As colorful as possible, giving delight to the eyes; food is a rainbow brought down to earth. As cheerful as possible, maximizing moments of happiness and pleasure.Collection: Mean
I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?Collection: Mean
Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.Collection: Mean
The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.Collection: Mean
A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.Collection: Mean
I had grown men cry. I mean, literally.Collection: Mean
America is the only developed nation in the world with no guaranteed paid leave of any kind. That means we're leaving a whole lot of talent on the sidelines.Collection: Mean
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.Collection: Mean
When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and health, even prison services, nonetheless national sovereignty still needs to be exercised.Collection: Mean
I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.Collection: Mean
And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner.Collection: Mean