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4065 Meant quotes by 2514 unique authors
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That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean…
— Donald James
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Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he…
— Immanuel Kant
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These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of…
— Mortimer Zuckerman
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One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he…
— Joseph Murray
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When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.
— Charles Hard Townes
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It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The…
— Isaac Todhunter
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Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something…
— Louise Wilson
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other…
— William Merritt Chase
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The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
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'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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1. Stress improvement, not perfection (or winning). 2. Don't take yourself too seriously; laugh at yourself and have fun. 3. Set attainable goals; reach them…
— Unknown Author
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School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on…
— Gordon Pirie
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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Heartache is good. Accept it joyously. Allow it, don't repress it. The natural tendency of the mind is to repress anything that is painful. By…
— Rajneesh
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Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness…
— Dannion Brinkley
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You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move…
— Anthony of Sourozh
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If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to…
— Ramana Maharshi
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It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the…
— Antonin Scalia
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Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is…
— Demi Lovato
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"In each of our lives Jesus comes as the Bread of Life - to be eaten, to be consumed by us. This is how He…
— Mother Teresa
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself,…
— Steven Pressfield
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When I said I do, I meant that I will, 'till the end of all time...
— Clint Black
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
— Samuel Johnson
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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
— Khalil Gibran
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