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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means… — Hannah Arendt
I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various… — Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. — Aristotle
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in… — Aristotle
I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the… — Julian Assange
When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least… — J. J. Abrams
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages… — Gerard Arpey
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate… — Antonin Artaud
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel… — Bashar al-Assad
That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting… — Julian Assange
I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing. — Rowan Atkinson
Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste,… — David Attenborough

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