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“I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.”

People May Mean Ends Matter Use Names Term Rooms Bars Appeals Traffic Liquor Guise Very Mean

Author:Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.”

Mean Causes Born Natural Issues Modern Dying Birth Celebration Avoided Predictable Parts Of Life Modern Society Unspeakable Very Mean

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.”

Mean Form Force Limits Mediums Limitation Improvisation Transcending Very Mean

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.”

Men Mean Asks Responsibility Position Objects He Man Complaining Likes Suits Sigh Revolt Deliverance Very Mean Vexation

Author:Francois Guizot

“Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.”

Should Mean War Taken Soldier Colour Very Mean

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?”

Needs Mean Political Goal Economic Sustainability Uncertain Ecological Insufficient Very Mean Uncertain Times

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.”

Should Mean Causes Natural Perfect Class Mankind Fit Goodness Capable Abuse Slavery Surrender Imperfect Entitled Privileged Submission Perfect Man Very Mean

Author:Albert Meltzer

“The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty.”

People Mean Political Process Sides Worst Nasty Very Mean

Author:Rob Zerban

“In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.”

Thinking Writing Mean Facts Theory Comfortable Favors Cease Squares Inquiry Very Mean

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.”

Mean Made Adversity Prosperity Very Mean

Book:The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; of York, Mariner: With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by pirates

Source: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; of York, Mariner: With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by pirates