“ Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- 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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“ 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
- 110
“ 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
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“ To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry… ”
- Barbara Sher- Copy
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“ Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. ”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti- Copy
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“ A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival. ”
- Edmund Burke- 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
- 439
“ Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. ”
- Henry Youngman- Copy
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“ To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- 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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“ Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. ”
- Herman Hesse- Copy
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“ Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. ”
- Albert Einstein- 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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“ ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else. ”
- Phyllis Schlafly- Copy
- 562
“ Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them. ”
- Celine Dion- Copy
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“ Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make.Tact means not noticing them. ”
- Arthur Schnitzler- Copy
- 3.2K
“ There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. ”
- P.J. O’ROURKE- Copy
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“ I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ”
- Kahlil Gibron- Copy
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“ Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
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