Means Quotes
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Patience means self-suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
Abraham Lincoln
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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
Wallace Stegner
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
Victor Hugo
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means they find their way into the blood. The propensity exhibited by the leukocytes for picking up inorganic granules is well known, and that they may be able not only to pick up but to assimilate, and so dispose of, the bacteria which come in their way does not seem to me very improbable in view of the fact that amoebae, which resemble them so closely, feed upon bacteria and similar organisms.
George Miller Sternberg
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“You count,” he said softly. “That’s what it means, to not belong - it means that you count. It wouldn’t be bearable if you didn’t know it would end.
Courtney Milan
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
Epictetus
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The end is inherent in the means.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We're in the sunshine. That means negatives will come out. That's OK.
J. M. Roberts
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The best content is the means, not the end.
Ben Richards
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
Hermann Hesse
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I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
Soren Kierkegaard
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Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.
Amanda Shires
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing.
Beryl Markham
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
Aurangzeb
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Do you suppose it all means something? That we're being left clues? Perhaps. Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.
Colin Cotterill