#means

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination? ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

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Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. ↗

— Zhou Enlai

#diplomacy #means #other #war

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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