Means Quotes
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To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
Epictetus
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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.
Regis Philbin
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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.
Stephen Curry
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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.
Blaise Pascal
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Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Keanu Reeves
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An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
Immanuel Kant
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There are no coincidences. And everything means something.
Cate Tiernan
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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.
Clara Fraser
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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.
Arthur Kleinman
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We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.
Satish Kumar
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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.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Paul de Man
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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
Dean Hughes
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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.
Coco Chanel
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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
Oscar Wilde
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The ends justifies the means.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.
Barry Crimmins
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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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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.
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.”
Alain de Benoist