#means

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#always #control #fellow #getting #means

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fear #find #i #i see #i write

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. ↗

— John Doerr

#better #big #big deal #bugs #chain

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#also #discussed #hard #hard work #importance

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#brute force #charm #effect #employing #force

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. ↗

— Thucydides

#be happy #brave #convinced #free #happy

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility. ↗

— Warren Farrell

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