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"Hi, Tad!' she said. 'Hi, Jeff! Hey, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?' 'Uh, no,' I said. 'We were just...I mean, Tad was...uh, nope.' 'So what were you guys talking about?' 'Well,' I said, 'it's very complicated. We were discussing...umm...hats. You know, hats. Like, the head kind.' 'There's another kind?' Lindsey asked. 'Hey, Jeff?' Tad said. 'If your mom needs any evidence to prove that you're retarded, let me know. I'd be glad to record you talking to Lindsey. I'm pretty sure that would do the trick."

Mean Talking Mom
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Jose Saramago Writer
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"Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so."

Mean Party Beach
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Jose Saramago Writer
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"It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices."

Mean Littles Echoes
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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out"."

Thinking Mean Air
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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
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"Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force."

Mean Land Italian
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God."

Mean Matter Regulation
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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff."

Mean Years Giving Up
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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create."

Mean Interesting Cooking
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June Jordan Poet, Activist
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"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."

People Mean Leader
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Justin Lin Economist
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"I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue."

People Mean Journey
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Judith Butler Philosopher, Gender Theorist
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"I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence."

Thinking Mean War
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Joseph Warren Physician, Patriot
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"That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration"

Mean Wise Patriotic
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"Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber."

Mean Dream Your Boyfriend
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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain."

Mean Pain Prevention
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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought."

Mean Acting Energy
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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute."

Mean Mother Wise
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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation."

Mean Artist Media
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve."

Mean Giving Greatness
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