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Image of Graham Greene
You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.
- Graham Greene
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert Frost
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
- Robert Frost
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Image of Jacque Fresco
When they say all men are created equal, that bothers me. I told you some are thin, some are heavy, some have better eyesight than others. I don't know what that means. I think they're trying to talk about equal opportunity and I know that doesn't exist. If you don't have the money to go to college, the word 'equal opportunities' mean nothing
- Jacque Fresco
Collection: Mean
Image of Jacque Fresco
We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will be perfect. They'll be far more accurate than just opinions.
- Jacque Fresco
Collection: Mean
Image of Jacque Fresco
The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
- Jacque Fresco
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Mean
Image of Giorgio Armani
Being famous very often means sacrificing your privacy and that of others. You have to impose on those close to you a pace and lifestyle that might be a bigger sacrifice for others than it is for you.
- Giorgio Armani
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Image of Bill Gates
So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Mean
Image of Seth Godin
I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
- Seth Godin
Collection: Mean
Image of Bill Gates
When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Mean
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Mean
Image of Megan Fox
My sense of humor doesn't translate well into print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even though I don't mean them that way. So I have been told to try and censor myself here and there. I'm trying, but I'm not really succeeding at it.
- Megan Fox
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Pope Francis
We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.
- Pope Francis
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Erich Fromm
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated more and more with the help of Madison Avenue.
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Mean
Image of Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Mean
Image of John Green
I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.
- John Green
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Image of John Green
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.
- John Green
Collection: Mean
Image of John Green
I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.
- John Green
Collection: Mean
Image of Neil Gaiman
I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Tom Ford
British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
- Tom Ford
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Nancy Grace
I don't know how much longer that's going to last but I can tell you this much: If I was to listen and pay attention to everyone that criticized me for, some rightly and some wrongly, I'd stay home under the bed. I don't mean under the covers, I mean under the bed. I would never have achieved a single thing.
- Nancy Grace
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Newt Gingrich
If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.
- Newt Gingrich
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Image of Indira Gandhi
If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.
- Indira Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Baltasar Gracian
Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.
- Baltasar Gracian
Collection: Mean
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Mean
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Bill Gates
And knowledge management is a means, not an end.
- Bill Gates
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Image of Pope Francis
To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Natalie Goldberg
Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.
- Natalie Goldberg
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Martha Gellhorn
the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
- Martha Gellhorn
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Robert Graves
You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?
- Robert Graves
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Image of J. William Fulbright
The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.
- J. William Fulbright
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Image of Aristotle
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Charles Fort
Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.
- Charles Fort
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Hannah Arendt
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.
- Hannah Arendt
Collection: Mean
Image of Erich Fromm
Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Mean
Image of Erich Fromm
To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Mean
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The end is inherent in the means.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean