Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Mean Quotes

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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Something that is completely unwinnable. I mean, it becomes unwinnable if we decide to leave [Afghanistan].

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My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Mean Quotes , Reform Quotes

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes

...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Mean Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Mean Quotes , Littles Quotes

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Mean Quotes , People Quotes

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Writing Quotes , Mean Quotes

Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mean Quotes , Night Quotes

As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Mean Quotes , Iran Quotes

Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Mean Quotes , Government Quotes

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Names Quotes

Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.

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Tags : Akio Morita Quotes , Running Quotes , Mean Quotes

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Mean Quotes , Argument Quotes

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Mean Quotes , Knowing Quotes

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Mean Quotes , Player Quotes

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?

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Tags : Adam Rex Quotes , Zoos Quotes , Mean Quotes