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“The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.”

Mean Nations Communication Civilization Draws Instruments Productions Improvement Rapids Bourgeoisie Communist Manifesto Means Of Communication

Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings

“All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.”

Mean Struggle Violence Achieve Instruments Democratic

Author:Osman Baydemir

“The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.”

Mean Art Opinion Singing Instruments Dancing Dance Musical Musical Instruments Geisha

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.”

Should Mean Country Security Military Becoming Instruments Other Countries Superiority Disarmament Weakening Enhancement

Author:Sha Zukang

“I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.”

Thinking Knows Mean Voice Wind Instruments Jazz Strings Versus Horns Bass Violin Trumpets Wind Instruments

Author:Debbie Harry

“n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.”

Humans Mean Doe Made Stills Artist Forever Poet Spring Instruments Chaos Painter Artistic Atmosphere Verses Idle

Author:William Dean Howells

“Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.”

Mean Different Known Clear Singing Performances Mathematics Instruments Dancing Musical Including Primaries Disciple Roger Musical Instruments

Book:The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte

Source: The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte

“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”

Thinking Mean Form Sound Color Painting Instruments Sake Drawing Excitement Palette

Author:John French Sloan

“So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.”

Mean Ends Names Language Understanding Tasks Instruments Heal Cherish Precision Stewards Using Words

Book:Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.”

Mean Attention Virtue Spring Roots Instruments Excellence Compelled Manuals

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.”

Mean Use Lying Wealth Virtue Rich Instruments Riches

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

“Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.”

Mean Ideas Games Winning Instruments Prize Anticipation Unwilling Hazards Grasping Interpreting Refutation Unjustified

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery