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"The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."
"I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!"
"There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention."
"Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress"
"To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right."
"Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind."
"Style means the right word. The rest matters little."
"Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish."
"I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better."
"When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken."
"The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else."
"Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty."
"Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life."
"Why wouldn't I be able to look at you? You're not my woman and I don't even have feelings for you. You really mean nothing to me now."
"The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick."
"Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution."
"Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind."
"If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times."
"I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they're my boss. That's what keeps me working."
"I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go ."
