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Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments… — Max O'Rell
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that… — Stephen Covey
Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another. — Dan Millman
To be human means to feel inferior. — Alfred Adler
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and… — Maya Angelou
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else. — Lillian Hellman
The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are… — Fritjof Capra
To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you… — Nido R Qubein
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible — Tillie Olsen
Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different. — Beyonce Knowles
There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We… — Al Gore
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to… — Andre Agassi
The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. — Peter Drucker
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended. — Aristotle
When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the… — Ludwig von Mises
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.… — Rollo May
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing. — Wallace D. Wattles
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should… — Ludwig von Mises
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore,… — Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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