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“As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.”

Men Want Mean Littles Concerned Little Man

Book:Jack Levine

Source: Jack Levine

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”

Men Way Mean States Reason Lying Choices Concerned Excellence Determine Determined Practicals Relative Moral Excellence

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.”

People Mean Said Poor Millions Concerned Romney

Author:David Letterman

“I became very interested [in philosophy] after attending the U.N. Conference on sustainable development in Brazil.I'm very concerned about climate change and the world reaching a tipping point. And, I see other people who really just want to survive to make it to the next election, rather than making means of change.”

People World Want Mean Philosophy Next Development Concerned Election Climate Climate Change Reaching Conferences Brazil Sustainable Development Attending Tipping Tipping Point

Author:Nick Offerman

“The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.”

Ifs Mean Inspiration Lying Path Clear Concerned Faults Following Aids Conformity Instruction Compelling Heed Explicit

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.”

Mean States Pain Faces Poverty Danger Inspire Concerned Bravery Court Noble Proof Fearful Cowardice

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.”

Mind Mean Self Reason Use Form Individual Higher Discipline Fit Conscience Concerned Absence Rational Self Respect Phases Degrade Unfree

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”