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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?"

Mean Beautiful Differences
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue."

Men Mean Country
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life."

Mean Life Work
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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive."

Mean The End Of The Day Being Real
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Albert Claude Biologist
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"When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills."

Mean School Study Life
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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources."

Mean Goal Essence
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good."

Mean Taxes Payroll Tax
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life."

Mean Truth Is Taxes
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people."

Mean Mistake Couple
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"Belief is a meaningless word. What does it mean? I believe something. Okay, now you have someone who is hearing voices and believes in these voices. It doesn't mean they have any necessary reality. Your whole concept of your "I" is an illusion. You have to give something called an "I" before you speak of what the "I" believes."

Believe Mean Reality
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Willie Parker Football Player
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"The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such."

Mean Law College
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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work."

Mean Art Motivation
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