Means Quotes
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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?
Michael Fassbender
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
Albert Camus
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Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
Alasdair MacIntyre
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I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.
Ellen Kushner
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal
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We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.
Thomas Carlyle
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The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
Allen Newell
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Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it.
Nick Morgan
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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.
Lao Tzu
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I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
Suzan-Lori Parks
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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.
Elisabeth Marbury
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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.
Will Chase
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Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge.
John Ruskin
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There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.
Andrew Neel
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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.
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
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[Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again. [Mark] What does ‘c-word’ mean? [Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don’t feel it. Not letting go even when you can’t find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end.
Pat Cadigan
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
John Milton
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Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.
David Budbill
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I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
Frederic Chopin