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  • Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
  • When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
  • I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
  • The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
  • I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
  • If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
  • It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
  • Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
  • To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
  • The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Voltaire A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Aristotle Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Saul Alinsky Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Aristotle Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Marguerite Duras A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • J. B. Priestley Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Günter Grass Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Ben Stein Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
    Darwinism: The Imperialism of Biology?. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
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  • Will Cuppy Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
    Will Cuppy
    American humorist and critic (1884 - 1949)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Adam Clarke Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • William James Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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