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Mean Quotes by Arthur Koestler
- Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old…
- The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and…
- In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.
- Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have…
- Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too;…
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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… — 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
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- 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
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — 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