Barack Obama Quotes, Country Quotes, Mean Quotes

[People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries is gonna require us to manage technology and global integration and all these demographic shifts in a way that makes people feel more control, that gives them more confidence in their future.

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I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny; to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Mean Quotes , Fighting Quotes

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , War Quotes , Mean Quotes

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Country Quotes , Mean Quotes

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Mean Quotes , Giving Quotes

Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker

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One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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Tags : Alan Perlis Quotes , Mean Quotes

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Mean Quotes

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Mean Quotes , Way Quotes

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Mother Quotes , Mean Quotes

I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.

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My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to follow.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Mean Quotes , Would Be Quotes

When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Mean Quotes , Our Society Quotes

A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Mean Quotes

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Mean Quotes , Treats Quotes

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , War Quotes , Mean Quotes

No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Mean Quotes

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Mean Quotes , People Quotes