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In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
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Radical simply means ''grasping things at the root.''
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
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The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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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.
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When I use a word,'' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,'' it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
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''Doing your own thing'' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
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A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
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A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.
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