Means Quotes
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The ends justifies the means.
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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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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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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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We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.
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Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
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The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
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The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
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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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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.
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We're in the sunshine. That means negatives will come out. That's OK.
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Patience means self-suffering.
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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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To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
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To some men knowledge of the universe has been an end possessing in itself a value that is absolute: to others it has seemed a means of useful applications.
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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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Daring to dream means daring to live.
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Do I know what rhetorical means?
