Mean Quotes (Page 235)

Ray Bradbury Author

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"I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)"

Men Mean Math

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move."

Mean Moving Hurt

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again."

Mean Years Gears

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer

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"When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy."

Mean Doe Philosophy

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author

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"If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful."

Men Mean Successful

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author

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"Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means."

Mean Order House

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Saul Bellow Novelist

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"Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy."

Mean Art Soul

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Saul Bellow Novelist

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"I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible."

Mean May Love You

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist

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"Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them."

Mean Hero Democracy

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist

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"How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?"

Mean Soul Clothes

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Scott Adams Cartoonist

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"If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played."

Mean Home Creativity

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Reginald Hill Author

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"Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be in your story too quickly, ask yourself what you've left out. If you've come to a certain point too slowly, ask yourself what kept you so long."

Mean Long Simple

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

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"I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail."

Men Mean Office

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

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"It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end."

Mean Long Errors

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

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"For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith, but it mercilessly examines and questions the spurious "faith" of everyday life, the human faith which is nothing but the passive acceptance of conventional opinion."

Mean Doubt Acceptance

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

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"What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults and mistakes, to separate myself from them as if they were not, and as if I were someone other than myself. This kind of self-annihilati on is only a worse illusion, it is a pretended humility which, by saying “I am nothing” I mean in effect “I wish I were not what I am."

Mean Mistake Humility

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

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"In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not."

Mean Order Hurt

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

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"Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good."

Mean Long Evil

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

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"Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as if creatures were His rivals. We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God."

Mean Spiritual Order

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Ti West Filmmaker

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"It's unreal. I mean, the dog backflips. It's amazing. Google Jumpy on YouTube - I had seen the dog first and I was like, "Y'all don't even know.""

Mean Dog Google

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