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Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.Collection: Mean
We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.Collection: Mean
A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.Collection: Mean
Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.Collection: Mean
An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.Collection: Mean
There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.Collection: Mean
Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.Collection: Mean
What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?Collection: Mean
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.Collection: Mean
By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.Collection: Mean
As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.Collection: Mean
The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."Collection: Mean
In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This is something that matters to us. We're dealing with scarcity. I mean, if you're dating one person, at the very least, you don't have as much time to date another person. And you may well find that you can only date one person at a time.Collection: Mean
Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.Collection: Mean
I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die for them, people kill for them.Collection: Mean
It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.Collection: Mean
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.Collection: Mean
People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.Collection: Mean
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death. ...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.Collection: Mean
God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.Collection: Mean
I mean what I say when i say it. After that, it's hard to sayCollection: Mean
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.Collection: Mean
But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--Collection: Mean
Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I`m afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I`d get nervous?' If not, then you`re cool.Collection: Mean
If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!Collection: Mean
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.Collection: Mean
I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am sayingCollection: Mean
The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred. By a reasonable interpretation, we mean, that in case the words are susceptible of two different senses, the one strict, the other more enlarged, that should be adopted, which is most consonant with the apparent objects and intent of the Constitution.Collection: Mean
However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way.Collection: Mean
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.Collection: Mean
Which meant I got left with Quinn yet again. Given the time he was taking to make his decision, I wasn't exactly happy about that. I mean, putting me with him was like flashing chocolate my way then telling me I couldn't have it. It was just plain mean.Collection: Mean
love means breaking all the rulesCollection: Mean
Just because a guy rings your bell, doesn't mean you have to toot his horn.Collection: Mean
I was always told that if people don't want a picture with you, or they don't want an autograph from you, that doesn't mean you're not doing anything good.Collection: Mean
That means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.Collection: Mean
Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights." "Divorce?" Despite myself, I laughed. Only Vic could call the aftermath of a bad first date a divorce. We hadn't exactly been friends beforehand, so "still" was an exaggeration, but it would've been mean to point that out. Besides, I liked Vic. "We're still friends." "Excellent. The weirdos have to stick together around here." "Are you calling me a weirdo?" "Highest honor I can bestow.Collection: Mean
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.Collection: Mean
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be mastersCollection: Mean
How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit.Collection: Mean
If the population curve is on an exponential growth, and the resources are on an exponential decline, what happens first is you get increases in wealth discrepancy, which means that you get rich pockets of gated communities with security guards outside them, and you get more and more poverty outside that area.Collection: Mean
Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.Collection: Mean
Live below your means but within your needs.Collection: Mean
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.Collection: Mean
Don't say anything. Just act cool," I whispered. Mavkel started to shiver. "Like this?" it asked. "No, I mean act calm." Mavkel stopped shivering.Collection: Mean
I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted to people who are basically free spirits.Collection: Mean
We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.Collection: Mean
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.Collection: Mean
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.Collection: Mean
To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.Collection: Mean