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Mean Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
- Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
- Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
- The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by…
- To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical…
- Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own…
- For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden…
- When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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- 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… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and 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… — Julian Assange
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams