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Maneka Gandhi Politician, Activist
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"Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means that many trees saved and more environmental damage prevented. It is calculated that if these 73 million animals were to be replaced, we would need 7.3 million tractors at the cost of 2.5 lac each which would amount to an investment of 180,000 crores. In addition 2 crore, 37 lakh and 50 thousand tonnes of diesel which would mean another 57,000 crore rupees. This is how much we owe these animals, and this is what we stand to lose by killing them."

Mean Years Animal
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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
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"I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."

Mean Real Scare
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Florence King Author
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"Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace."

Mean Sex Race
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives."

Mean Self Appreciation
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Hayley Williams Singer, Songwriter
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"I believe it’s important to stay young at heart, to have faith in what might seem impossible and to have goals beyond your current abilities or temporary means."

Believe Mean Heart
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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police."

Mean Eggs Rainy Day
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Keith Ellison Politician
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"If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them."

People Mean Ideas
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
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"Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty."

Mean War Liberty
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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician
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"Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant."

Mean Book Use
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"It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter what you look like. I mean, if you have a hunchback just throw a little glitter on it, honey, and go dancing!"

Mean Self Expression
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James Thurber Cartoonist, Author
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"Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley."

Mean Father Memories
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Jean Cocteau Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort."

Men Mean Lying
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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle."

Mean Party Struggle
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Jim James Musician
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"You might see someone with dreadlocks and label them a hippie in your head, but that doesn't mean they think of themselves that way. A lot of people look at me and see I have a beard and shaggy hair, and think I'm a hippie. I'm not a hippie, and I'm not not a hippie. I don't know what the f**k I am."

Thinking Mean Hippie
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Jose Saramago Writer
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"...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing."

Mean Order Islands
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not."

Mean Home Father
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Jean Piaget Psychologist, Philosopher
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."

Mean Reality Knowing
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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
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"[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit."

Mean Stupid Zoos
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