“Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being” MenGivingMeanWarPlayFeelingsLawUsedJoyFightingNaturalAnimalViolenceBloodMilitaryDangerWeaponsSpringHatredDifficultyAngryAffectionCrueltyBreastsRemoveCarrieFacultySageVeinsPerilHornsNatural LawHatred And LoveMilitary WeaponsViolence And Cruelty Author:Sima Qian
“But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.” MeanWealthSecurityAnxietyRemoveGentlenessDisturbingRefinement Book:Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart Source: Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart
“Black. Simply remove all the little colored stickers on the cube, and each of side of the cube will now be the original color of the plastic underneath - black. According to the instructions, this means the puzzle is solved.” MeanLittlesSidesBlackColorHumorousOriginalsRemoveInstructionPlasticPuzzlesCubesSticker Author:Steven Rubenstein
“To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation” MindHumansMeanBodyHealingFunctionOperationsRemoveHuman BodyAmputation Author:Rudolf Breuss
“I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.” FeelsMeanFactsAgeSchoolUsedSituationToolsAddRemoveFilmmakingOld School Author:J. J. Abrams