Means Quotes
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
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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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A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.
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Communism, far from being an intolerable bureaucratic tyranny and individual regimentation, will be the means of greater individual liberty and shared abundance.” Words from If America Should Go Communist by Leon Trotsky, co-leader and standard-bearer of the Russian Revolution.
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It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.
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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 be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
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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 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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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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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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An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
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When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
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It means treasury, but it is just a placewhere words congregate with their relatives,a big park where hundreds of family reunionsare always being held.
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The best content is the means, not the end.
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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
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There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.”
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Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.
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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.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
