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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness."

Mean Spiritual Happiness
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body."

Mean Real Player
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death."

Mean Self Training
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks."

Men Mean Dog
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like."

Mean May Fortune
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish."

Mean Sex Selfish
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible."

Believe Mean Clever
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?"

Mean Art Song
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B. B. King Musician
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"Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get."

Mean Hurt Hard Times
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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
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"Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break."

Mean Inspiring Yoga
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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
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"As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga."

Mean Morning Yoga
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Barack Obama Politician
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"Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership."

Mean Children America
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Barack Obama Politician
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"The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation."

Mean Nuclear Mass Destruction
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Barack Obama Politician
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"The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up."

People Mean Country
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Barack Obama Politician
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"In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are."

Mean War Law
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself"

Mean Levels Power Of Now
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity."

Mean Spiritual Powerful
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