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Friedrich Engels Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of production in the name of societythis is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not abolished. It dies out."

Mean Government Independent
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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician
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"Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing."

Mean Mad Yes You Can
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"People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again"

People Mean Moving
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves."

Mean Doe Nihilism
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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
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"I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me."

Thinking Mean Years
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year."

Men Mean Silly
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart."

Writing Mean Plain Language
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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could change our behavior really quickly instead of over hundreds and hundreds of years. And then comes moral evolution, which means we're not frightfully far along with people. And maybe we end up with a spiritual evolution, which is this connectedness with the rest of the life forms on the planet."

Mean Years Spiritual
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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
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"I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm."

Mean Umbrella Drought
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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
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"Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it."

Mean Jobs Kids
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John Brown Abolitionist, Military Leader
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"Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white."

Writing Mean White
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John Cage Composer, Musician
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"There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure."

Mean Order Laughter
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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now"

Mean Looks House
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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
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"Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership."

Mean Country Land
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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine."

Men Mean Inspirational
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Jeff Buckley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"Music needs to have a real sacred setting for people to understand it. You've got to start things off with friends who are like-minded or even strangers that are like-minded. Sending your music to established artists or labels or magazine, I mean there is something to be said for tenacity, for trying to pursue recognition that way, but it just doesn't make sense for the best work. And if you do make an amazing work, it's sometimes not the best way to be heard. You have to get on a sacred space, like a stage, and do your testifying that way."

Mean Real Artist
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Hippocrates Physician
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"But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception."

Mean Science Fashion
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Martin Luther Theologian
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"Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain."

Mean Law Healing
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