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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go."

Mean Mind Enlightenment
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world."

Mean Boys Unique
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Aristotle Philosopher
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"So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency."

Men Mean Lying
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."

Men Mean Reality
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals."

Men Mean Animal
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."

Mean Passion Life Changing
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means."

Men Mean Honest
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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
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""I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur.""

Mean Humorous Sarcasm
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Alfred Adler Psychologist
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"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."

Mean War Peace
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Alfred Adler Psychologist
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"Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery."

Mean Water Tears
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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
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"Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence."

Mean Business Groups
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles."

Mean Real Fun
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do."

Mean Night Business
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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean."

Mean Love Smell
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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist
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"I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then."

Mean Loyal Marry Me
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Wolfgang Smith Philosopher, Mathematician
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"We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are told, often enough, that the doctrine is founded upon evidence, and that indeed this evidence is henceforward above all verification, as well as being immune from any subsequent contradiction by experience; but we are left entirely in the dark on the crucial question wherein, precisely, this evidence consists."

Mean Dark Doctrine
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Venus Williams Tennis Player
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"As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks."

Thinking Mean Next
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