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  • I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , Years Quotes
  • We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes
  • ... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Swartz Quotes , Sadness Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Mean Quotes , Deep Thought Quotes
  • Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Mean Quotes , Journey Quotes
  • And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Xbox Quotes , Mean Quotes