#mean

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good. ↗

— Paul Simon

#bargain #being #first #good #i

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. ↗

— Peter Singer

#become #controlled #democracy #elite #fact

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected. ↗

— Peter Singer

#actions #affected #best #consequences #good

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. ↗

— John Sladek

#alive #any #being #century #except

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#clock #construe #defeating #gone #i

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#class #discussion #especially #free #free discussion

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#factor #kids #massive #meant #money

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes. ↗

— Jaclyn Smith

#because #comes #far #just #just because

It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks. ↗

— Dana Torres

#body #difficult #extremely #i #intense

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along." ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#any #build #create #different #different way