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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures."

Mean Two Hands
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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes."

Mean Hero Army
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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family."

Mean Home Family
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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
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"I've come to a much more controlled idea about death and loss, but I don't think it's possible to come to that much more controlled idea until you've gone through the crazy part . . . I don't mean that I'm controlled. I mean that I gave up the idea that I had control. That's the new control."

Mean Crazy Loss
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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
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"I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing."

Mean Victory Rereading
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Jim Sinclair Activist
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"Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally."

Mean Gold Portfolios
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Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
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"I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel."

Thinking Mean Heart
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"High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant."

Mean Book Ideas
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Lindsey Graham Politician
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"We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code."

People Mean Retirement
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Lindsey Graham Politician
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"I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South."

People Mean South Carolina
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Lindy West Writer
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"In my freshman year of college, when a male professor asked the class, "Who here identifies as a feminist?" Only one girl raised her hand, and the rest of us just sat there. He basically just shamed us for the rest of the class   -   in a constructive way. He went around the room and said to each girl, "Why didn't you raise your hand? Feminism means men and women deserve the same rights, and that the balance in the world is currently tilted in men's favour."

Mean Girl College
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Lindy West Writer
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"I'm a deeply privileged person. I have a safe, comfortable life, and there's very little at risk for me. I'm not going to get disowned by my family for talking about having an abortion, and I'm not risking my job or homelessness by saying something controversial that my employer might not like. I have this gift of stability and it feels obligatory to use that to make the world better in whatever small ways I can. It's incredibly fulfilling. Even helping one person feel a little bit better is really important to me and makes me feel like my life means something."

Mean Risk Abortion
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Kim Wilde Singer, Songwriter
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"Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control."

Mean Blonde Eighty
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Kin Hubbard Cartoonist, Humorist
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"When a woman says, 'I don't wish to mention any names', it means it ain't necessary to mention any names."

Mean Names Wish
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Homer Poet
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"I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T ... Uh, I mean S-M-A-R-T."

Mean Smart
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