Quotes with means

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  • Oscar Wilde The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marian Anderson The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Carey Mulligan The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Og Mandino The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Adam Baldwin The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Havelock Ellis The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Billy Gibbons The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Graham The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Buddha The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Alan Cohen The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Germaine Greer The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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