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Teju Cole Author, Photographer
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"In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects - maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books - and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. So, I don't think it's as simple as literary inclusiveness."

Mean Art Book
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Teju Cole Author, Photographer
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"Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories."

Mean Self Stories
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Teju Cole Author, Photographer
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"The big idea behind it was to somehow participate in the discussion about justice. What does it mean to be just to the others out there whose lives we do not think about. One of the answers I came up with was simply tell their stories."

Thinking Mean Ideas
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'."

Mean Skills Buddhist
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue."

Mean Issues Encounters
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time."

Mean Long Emotion
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary."

Mean Self Reflection
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?"

Mean Art Integrity
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means."

Mean Political Historical
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after."

Mean Facts Nuts
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'"

Mean Wings Thoughtful
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review."

Mean Real War
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature."

Mean Taken Vegetables
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Teresa Giudice Television Personality
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"I will describe the choices I made, continue to take responsibility for my decisions, and express my remorse to Judge Salas and the public. I am heartbroken that this is affecting my family - especially my four young daughters, who mean more to me than anything in the world."

Mean Daughter Heartbroken
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring."

Men Mean Reality
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders."

Writing Mean Art
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on."

Mean Lying Pain
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