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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a… — Jean Baudrillard
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting… — Cecil Beaton
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. — Simone de Beauvoir
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. — Simone de Beauvoir
What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal… — Glenn Beck
Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with… — Martha Beck
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into… — Kristen Bell
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. — A. C. Benson
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. — Ezra Taft Benson
Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't… — Ezra Taft Benson
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion.… — Ezra Taft Benson
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we… — Ezra Taft Benson
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the… — John Berger
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority… — Alfred Adler
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. — Henri Bergson
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and… — Annie Besant
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and… — Stella Adler
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If… — Jeff Bezos
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. — Ambrose Bierce
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. — Otto von Bismarck
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. — Otto von Bismarck
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno

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