Means Quotes
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
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Do I know what rhetorical means?
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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.
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To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
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Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
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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.
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The end is inherent in the means.
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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
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We're in the sunshine. That means negatives will come out. That's OK.
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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?
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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.
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The ends justifies the means.
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I'm pretty confident, let's just say that, in my game right now, for what it is. So if that means a win, then I'll be real happy.
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To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
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Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.
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Laughter means sympathy.
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Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
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I'd rather do something than read about it." "That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*." -pg 138-9
