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Mean Quotes by Alan Bennett
- I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
- [talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.…
- There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is…
- If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle