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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Excellence
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
Negotiation
Marvin Gaye

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Action
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
Feminism
Germaine Greer

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Silence
Che Guevara

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When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Literary Criticism
Albert Guinon

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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Georg Hegel

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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
Learning
Robert Heinlein

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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
Solitude
George Herbert

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Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Materialism
Hesiod

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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
Uncategorised
Eric Hoffer

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Simplicity
Hans Hofmann

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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Democracy
Langston Hughes

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An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support
Atheism
Aldous Huxley

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Faith
William James

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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Metaphysics
William James

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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Melancholy
Samuel Johnson

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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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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Democracy
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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To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.
America
Meyer London

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