Means Quotes
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In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.
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If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
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I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
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By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
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To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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It's going to be an honest, fair, unvarnished look at what we do, and that means that it's an experiment. It's a risk. Not everybody approves of what we do. But I'm banking on the fact that people will also see how much effort we make about being fair and being ethical.
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God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
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Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
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Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
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War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces
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Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.
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Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what lens that will be through. A lot of my work has been about identity in different ways. Part of that for me falls into the question of gender identity certainly but also about what it means to be an American theater artist.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments if one suffices.
