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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
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"The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest."

Men Mean Adventure
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Ali Larijani Politician
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"Europeans should pay more attention. Iran has called for dialogue and is moving in the direction of reaching an agreement through peaceful means."

Mean Moving Agreement
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Ali Sina Philosopher, Writer
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"Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal."

Mean Lying Political
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Allen Iverson Basketball Player
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"People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial."

People Mean Who I Am
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Amy Adams Actress
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"I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that’s my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people."

Mean Emotional Hard Times
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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"If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child."

Mean Children Eye
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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
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"I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?"

Mean War Funny
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Angel Grant Actress
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"There are many factors that impact the value of login credentials sold on the dark web. The main factor is how easy it is for a hacker to resell the merchandise, especially from a brand name, i.e., it's easier to sell an Apple iPhone over a pair of boots. Another factor that contributes to cost on the dark web is if there is a credit card saved on the account file and whether the stolen credentials have been verified. This means that a hacker was able to verify a successful login and the owner/consumer hasn't changed their password so we can expect even more fraud transactions to come."

Mean Dark Successful
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into."

Mean Book Night
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff."

Mean Sleep Smell
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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring."

Men Mean Spring
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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic"

Mean Amusing Live Simply
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Aristotle Philosopher
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"There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes."

Mean Mind Two
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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle."

Mean Two Circles
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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold."

Mean Simple Errors
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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice."

Mean Pain Bravery
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Aristotle Philosopher
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"So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean."

Mean Law Politics
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