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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Pride
Samuel Johnson

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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Enlightenment
Nikos Kazantzakis

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Freedom
Robert F. Kennedy

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Peace
King Jr. Martin Luther

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Practice without improvement is meaningless.
Practice
Chuck Knox

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Risk
Arthur Koestler

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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Democracy
Karl Kraus

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Marriage
Karl Kraus

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
Money
Ray Kroc

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
Failure
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
Fame
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Pearls mean tears.
Tears
Doris Lessing

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Politicians and Politics
Abraham Lincoln

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To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.
America
Meyer London

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Books - Reading
Anthony Marcel

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Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
Listening
John Marshall

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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Parents and Parenting
Joyce Maynard

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Miller

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Meaning of Life
Henry Miller

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License they mean when they cry liberty.
Liberty
John Milton

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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Honesty
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Critics and Criticism
Wilson Mizner

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Men and Women
Friedrich Nietzsche

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When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
President
Richard M. Nixon

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Arts and Artists
Novalis

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun