Means Quotes
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Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
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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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Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.
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If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
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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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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
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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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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different things.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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True generosity means accepting ingratitude.
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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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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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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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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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Laughter means sympathy.
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Sometimes true girl power means accepting that we are actually vulnerable and even powerless - then figuring out how to adapt and have our needs met in other ways.
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So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
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Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
