Means Quotes
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If we cut our batch sizes in half, then I guess that at any one time we’d have half the work-in-process on the floor. I guess that means we’d only need half the investment in work-in-process to keep the plant working. If we could work it out with our vendors, we could conceivably cut all our inventories in half, and by cutting our inventories in half, we reduce the amount of cash tied up at any one time, which eases the pressure on cash flow.
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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 be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
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If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
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Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.
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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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You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
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Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
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But this is the point I want to make: When you talk about steroids and you talk about what it means to the game, the three greatest home run hitters of all time-Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays, right? When they were 39 years old, how many home runs do you think they averaged? The three greatest home run hitters of all time averaged 18 home runs at age 39. Now, how many home runs did Barry Bonds hit when he was 39? He hit 73!
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
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Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
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For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
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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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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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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.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different things.
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
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It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
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Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
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Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.
