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Radhanath Swami Spiritual Leader
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"True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have or don't have; it's your state of consciousness. In essence, it means that true peace that comes from true renunciation arrives when we understand that nothing is mine. Whatever intelligence I have, whatever abilities I have, whatever family members I have, whatever wealth or property I have, is the sacred property of God or the Divine."

Mean Parent Students
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Vernon Lee Writer, Critic
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"Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined."

Mean Mind Feelings
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Veronica Roth Author
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"Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them."

Thinking Mean Moving
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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"

Mean War Brother
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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears."

Mean Nature Ignorance
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it."

Mean Years Hurricanes
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

Mean Blessed Beauty
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart."

Men Mean Character
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind."

Mean Wind Overcoming
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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"If your men grow weary of the work or balk at obedience, you must bear with them. Get what you can gently from them. True, it is good to be firm in attaining your goal, but use appropriate, attractive, and agreeable means."

Men Mean Goal
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"The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray."

Mean Art Taken
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"It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it."

Mean Risk Pearls
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together."

Mean Mind Together
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity."

Mean Past Animal
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable."

Mean Feelings Dark
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Terrelle Pryor Football Player
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"Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance."

Thinking Mean Second Chance
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