"A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories"
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"However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected."
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"Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people."
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"Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas."
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"Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself."
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"Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition"
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"Blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war."
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"You cannot say, 'No, Lord,' and mean both words; one annuls the other. If you say no to Him, then He is not your Lord."
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"Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation."
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"What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?"
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"Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos."
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"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!"
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"Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles."
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"The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life."
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"You can only offend me if you mean something to me."
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"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
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"The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others."
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"The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university."
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"A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom."
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"That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't."
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