#means

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#come #devil #door #get #just

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#defined #definition #done #group #means

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#begin #ceasing #failures #immense #importance

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#below #comeback #dropped #means #own

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#giving #giving up #hand #hard #hard job

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#amendment #anything #books #business #films

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fiction #how #imagination #interpret #interpretation

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. ↗

— Karl Marx

#earn #live #making #making money #means

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing. ↗

— George Mason

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