“ Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am. ”
- Theodore Parker- Copy
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“ I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ”
- Elizabeth Gaskell- Copy
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“ To what base ends, and by what abject ways,Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means. ”
- La Monte Young- Copy
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“ And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. - The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Business is a means - the only means - to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
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“ No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ”
- Henry Adams- Copy
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“ This means everything to Chicago. If they want a World Series championship, they've got it. ”
- Frank Thomas- Copy
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“ If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it. ”
- Agnes Macphail- Copy
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“ If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ”
- Thurgood Marshall- Copy
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“ The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.'. ”
- Reinhold Niebuhr- Copy
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“ An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Failure doesn't mean you are a failure…it just means you haven't succeeded yet. ”
- Robert Schuller- Copy
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“ Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. ”
- Christina Baldwin- Copy
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“ Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. ”
- Claudian- Copy
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“ To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
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