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“For many of us, the computer is the means by which we earn a living. To give it a nod, then, is a way of thanking the tool for what it provides in life. It helps put bread on the table and a roof overhead. It gives us work and pleasure, exercises our minds, brings us information, connects us with other people. It is a partner helping us achieve our goals. Nodding also thanks the unseen hands and minds who helped create our machine.”

People Way Giving Mind Mean Helping Hands Goal Pleasure Achieve Information Exercise Gratitude Computer Tools Machines Tables Partners Bread Thanks Roof Unseen Overhead Nodding

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.”

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Author:Samantha Abeel

“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.”

“The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.”

“We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.”

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Book:Jesus for President

Source: Jesus for President

“Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.”

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Author:J. Robbins

“We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.”

People Want Mean Age Levels Taxes Benefits Democrat Income Code Retirement Tested

Author:Lindsey Graham

“My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.”

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Author:Kinky Friedman

“I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to be able to trust someone completely; so you need to be able to think you can trust them. But that doesn't mean you can't have extraordinary feelings for other people and not feel guilty about them, but not necessarily go and wreck marriages and consummate, and you don't have to do all that.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Mean Feelings Able Love Is Extraordinary Guilty Wrecks Been In Love

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“It was my dream for years... to train. Dominic [Cooper] went and he's doing alright. But some people don't go and do brilliantly. Although I think there are things I missed from not having trained. I think I'd be more confident on stage had I gone because I think it means you're equipped with better vocal training and things like that.”

People Thinking Years Mean Dream Gone Stage Training Train Vocal Alright

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

People Thinking Way Kind Mean Different Christianity Too Much Taught Blessing All Kinds One Way Different Ways Pardon Truest

Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.”

People Men Mean Miserable Unhappiness Impatience

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.”

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Author:Marge M. Kennedy

“If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".”

“A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.”

People Firsts Mean Important Young Order Education Knowing First Things First

Book:In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.”

People World Mean Bureaucracy Absolutely Nothing Bureaucrats

Author:Hugh Sidey

“Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.”

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Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.”

People Thinking Mean Art England Contemporary Listening To Music Mean People Contemporary Art

Author:Damien Hirst

“If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.”

People Ifs May Mean Government Fighting Nations Military Weak Supremacy Having Strength

Author:Shang Yang

“A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.”

“Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.”

People Thinking Mean Hard Interesting Hard Work Politician Smart Charm Good People Charming Schedules Caricatures

Author:Tucker Carlson

“People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!”

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Author:Ben Harper

“Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.”

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Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from motives of love, kindness, and humility, and to do so gracefully, when no sin is involved. It also means the ability to stand on principle, and not to give in, when sin is involved.”

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Author:Lawrence G. Lovasik

“I think people think I'm accessible. I'm never treated as a star, either by fans or other actors, and I like it like that. I don't get the star treatment. I think that means I'm a good actor. They acknowledge me as a human being, and to me, that's invalua.”

People Thinking Humans Mean Actors Stars Human Beings Fans Treated Acknowledge Treatment Good Actors

Author:Kate Mulgrew

“I made Simon Cowell look stupid once. He is terrified of presenting so I gave him the microphone and walked away. He hates interviewing people it means the focus is off him.”

People Looks Mean Made Hate Focus Stupid Terrified Presenting Microphones

Author:Ryan Seacrest

“Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.”

“People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.”

People Mean Moments Wonderful One Thing Movement Photograph Things Change Catching Right Moment

Book:André Kertész: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Source: André Kertész: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

“I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.”

People Thinking Feels Mean Culture Fields Football Connections Committed Hockey Responding

Author:Jon Jones

“It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?”

People Mean Entertainers Mean People

Author:Liam Gallagher

“In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred - I mean hatred for wealthy people - that is stirred up by official propaganda. That is why there can be no 'velvet' solution, as there was, for example, in Georgia or Ukraine.”

People Mean Class Example Solutions Hatred Russia Propaganda Officials Wealthy Ukraine Georgia Velvet

Author:Boris Nemtsov

“For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.”

People Mean Justice Inspire Diversity Social Justice

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.”

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Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I am committed to furthering the self-determination of Indian communities but without terminating the special relationship between the Federal Government and the Indian people. I am strongly opposed to termination. Self-determination means that you can decide the nature of your tribe's relationship with the Federal Government within the framework of the Self-Determination Act, which I signed in January of 1975.”

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Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.”

People World Giving Mean Law Order Policy Victory Civilization Civilized Righteousness Foreign Policy Expansion

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.”

People Mean Politics Power Terror Gentle Decent Protected

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.”

People World Way Mean Self Enough Whole Hands Found Causes Peace Findings Losing Inner Peace Stable Self Centered Finding Inner Peace

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

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

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Author:David Letterman

“There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.”

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Author:George Galloway

“It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.”

People Mean Government Principles Judging Theory Office Constitution Foundation Servant Entitled

Book:Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation

Source: Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation

“My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.”

“You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our character should take on the best of that which is American, and combine it with the best of that which is German. By doing this, we can best serve the American people and their civilization.”

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Author:Carl Schurz

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

“It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.”

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Author:Golda Meir

“We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.”

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Author:Steve Jobs