#means

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#available #back #being #came #could

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#advance #dearth #demands #division #ever

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#business #find #know #life #living

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#full #how #life #me #means

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics. ↗

— Peter Singer

#clash #compromise #ethics #i #means

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#however #infinite #invisibility #means #opportunities

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#america #believe #country #define #difference

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#citizen #destructive #destructiveness #did #does

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#does #income #long #maximize #means

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring. ↗

— George Strait

#as far as #comes #date #event #far