Means Quotes
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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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Laughter means sympathy.
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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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Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.
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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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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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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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We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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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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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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The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.
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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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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
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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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Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
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“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.”
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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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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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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Daring to dream means daring to live.
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Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.
