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Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
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Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
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Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.
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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
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Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
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Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.
Bobby Darin
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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
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Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken seperately.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
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That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
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That you know flag flying over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone
Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.Magic (2007) Long Walk Home -
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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