Means Quotes
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Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
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The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
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Laughter means sympathy.
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It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.
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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
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The Puerto Rican fans have supported me and it means a lot. I'm a Puerto Rican just like they are.
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If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
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The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
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People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
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Lack is more in means, than in principles.
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To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
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I think, in the past, you could buy a flat and live comfortably on theatre and touring theatre, but you can't do that anymore, which means that you have to have a certain amount of celebrity and profile to, therefore, get TV and film work.
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To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.
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Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.
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I will take away your means of escape.
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My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.
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To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.
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People say, 'Stalin's daughter, Stalin's daughter,' meaning I'm supposed to walk around with a rifle and shoot the Americans," she once said. Or they say, 'No, she came here. She is an American citizen.' That means I'm with a bomb against the others. No, I'm neither one. I'm somewhere in between.
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You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.
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I am happy. I have won many awards, but it is the national award that I was waiting for. This means everything to me.
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There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
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With my representation of a black woman in the world today, there's such a powerful response from my community about what it means to have black representation on television. That response is so overwhelming and so strong that I just have to express my own gratitude for it, because I understand the necessity for it.
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If you have won a national award, it means you have done something great.
