#means

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing. ↗

— David Korten

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It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated. ↗

— James Woods

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. ↗

— Aristotle

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I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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