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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things."

Mean Heart School
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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls."

People Mean Class
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Barbara Jordan Politician, Lawyer
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"Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise."

Mean Light Becoming One
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

Mean Business Leadership
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females."

Mean Government Female
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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
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"When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart."

Men Mean Heart
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray."

Mean Trials Holocaust
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something."

Mean Heart Love Is
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either."

Mean Order Italian
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"There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do."

Mean School Girl
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
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"If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth."

Mean Saint Long Ago
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Emily Barton Author
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"One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means."

Mean Book Past
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"You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate."

Mean Temptation Wicked
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim."

Mean Purpose Liberty
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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
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"It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people."

People Thinking Mean
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