“ 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'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ”
- Elizabeth Gaskell- 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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“ A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. ”
- Robert M. Hutchins- Copy
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“ Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 3.4K
“ There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else… ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
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“ He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied, And therein do account myself well paid; My mind was never yet more mercenary. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Will is extremely funny. The tights, though, they were a little vulgar. I just looked at the tights and there's nothing funny about them! ”
- James Caan- Copy
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“ Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom… Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. ”
- Eleonora Duse- Copy
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“ A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, Faith means believing the unbelievable, And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- 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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“ Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. ”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti- Copy
- 77
“ Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make.Tact means not noticing them. ”
- Arthur Schnitzler- Copy
- 77
“ Morality is primarily a means of preserving the community and saving it from destruction. Next it is a means of maintaining the community on a certain plane and in a certain degree of benevolence. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship. ”
- Hulk Hogan- Copy
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“ ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else. ”
- Phyllis Schlafly- Copy
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“ Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3K
“ Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum. ”
- Christopher Dawson- Copy
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