#mean

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ↗

— Aristotle

#choice #concerned #determine #determined #excellence

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. ↗

— Aristotle

#pleasures #regard #temperance

I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#also #been #doing #done #film

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 through its control over the American administration. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#american #american administration #another #clout #control

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#does #fear #mean #readiness #worry

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. ↗

— Julian Assange

#between #china #enormous #freedom #freedom of speech

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 enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. ↗

— Julian Assange

#any #caliber #disclosures #enormous #enough

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. ↗

— Mary Astell

#consider #contemptible #creatures #fly #god

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#because #being #brave #chance #dangerous

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. ↗

— John Acton

#assurance #authority #believes #custom #doing