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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man."

Men Mean Careers
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time."

People Mean Hangover
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER"

Mean Dream Blood
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING."

Mean Wisdom Worry
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -"

Mean Needs Realization
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Indira Gandhi Politician
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"It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that."

Mean Praying Temples
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Indira Gandhi Politician
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"If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious."

Men Mean Religious
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Indira Gandhi Politician
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"Do you know that, until recently, poor people brought children into the world for the sole purpose of making use of them? But how can you change, by force or all of a sudden, an age-old habit? The only way is to plan births, by one means or another."

Mean Children Old Habits
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Indira Gandhi Politician
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"What does nonalignment mean? It means we don't belong to any military bloc and that we reserve the right to be friends with any country, independently of the influence of any country. All this has remained unchanged after the signing of the Indo-Soviet treaty, and others can say or think what they like - our policy won't change because of the Soviet Union."

Mean Country Military
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action."

Mean Art Independent
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it."

Thinking Mean Clue
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Hannah Unknown
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"I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom"

People Thinking Mean
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Hannah Unknown
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"In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of one’s own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them."

Mean Self Actors
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Hannah Unknown
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"To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one’s own arrival and will survive one’s own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death."

Mean Alive Events
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