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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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals. — David Attenborough
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to… — David Attenborough
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time… — Margaret Atwood
Music is the best means we have of digesting time. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without… — Jane Austen
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster

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