Means Quotes
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With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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As a community we are living way beyond our means
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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
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We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?
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Lack is more in means, than in principles.
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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].
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There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.
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Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.
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Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least of the truths obtained through divine revelation; thus we can argue with heretics from texts in Holy Writ, and against those who deny one article of faith we can argue from another. If our opponent believes nothing of divine revelation, there is no longer any means of proving the articles of faith by reasoning, but only of answering his objections - if he has any - against faith.
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It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.
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Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
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If you have won a national award, it means you have done something great.
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To me, I can be famous in sports. But to me, I cannot say it means a lot to be famous. Being famous is something I don't like.
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Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
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You think silence means something. Sometimes, there's just nothing to say.
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It means treasury, but it is just a placewhere words congregate with their relatives,a big park where hundreds of family reunionsare always being held.
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He's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.
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We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
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Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.
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I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.
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If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
