Means Quotes
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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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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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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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
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior.
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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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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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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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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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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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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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We're in the sunshine. That means negatives will come out. That's OK.
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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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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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Patience means self-suffering.
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The ends justifies the means.
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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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Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
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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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Daring to dream means daring to live.
