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U.G. Krishnamurti Philosopher
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"You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere."

Mean Different Understanding
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Galileo Galilei Astronomer, Physicist
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"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them."

Believe Mean Atheist
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Hannah Unknown
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"No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably in the last half hour!"

Thinking Mean Hate
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines."

Men Mean Space
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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer
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"Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that."

Mean Broken Romantic Love
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Hugo Black Justice
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"Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write."

Writing Mean Freedom
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Patty Murray Politician
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"Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up."

Writing Mean Growing Up
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress."

Mean Mistake Progress
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"With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi."

Mean Country Rivers
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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
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"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them."

Mean Voice Numbers
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Lech Walesa Politician, Activist
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"We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity."

Mean Future Respect
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Martin Gore Musician
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"I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different."

Mean Song Hate
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Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it."

Thinking Mean Hurt
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her.""

Mean Running Agreement
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