Means Quotes
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Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.
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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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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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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different things.
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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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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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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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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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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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True generosity means accepting ingratitude.
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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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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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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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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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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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Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”
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We have to get serious about living within our means.
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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
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What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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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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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
