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“The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.”

Giving Mean Lessons Towns Method

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?”

Men Mean Doe He Man Painting Solutions Machines Method Depth Screens Articles Silk Copying Audacious

Author:Andy Warhol

“The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.”

Mean Doe Values Method Dimensions Expansion Deliberate

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.”

May Mean Doe Art War Use Enemy Weapons Army Method Train Criminals Warfare Art Of War Unwise

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.”

People Mind Firsts Believe May Mean Sometimes Used Goal Results Study Revolution Program Method Careful Objectives Motive Characteristics Consideration Historic Changing Your Mind

Author:Malcolm X

“Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.”

Mean Easy Results Method Invention Analysis Construction Equations Elegant Demonstration Ingenuity Refined Algebra

Book:1691-1695

Source: 1691-1695

“Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.”

Way Mean Ends States Greatness Police Method Threat Criminals Unlimited Coercion Police State Pragmatism Premium Prosecution

Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.”

Writing Wells Mean Doe Said Motivational Artist Order Forget Becoming Method Technique Grammar

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

“Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as an 'unblinking look' at their subjects - which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed... the result is a work so bad that Britons cannot realise how fortunate they are in being unable to buy it. The great mistake with this book is not that it has been published in Britain, but that it has actually been published anywhere else.”

Writing Looks Mean Has Beens Book Might Eye Courses Language Results Mistake Subjects Method Fortunate Britain Realising Frank Her Eyes Biographies Nancy Great Mistakes Kitties Britons

Author:David Cannadine

“Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges. It provides a means whereby certain individuals can accumulate claims against others, or against the economy as a whole, or against many economies.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from the tedium and fatigue of purely mechanical toil, for by this means he gains leisure for the thought necessary to working out his designs, and for the finer touches that the hand alone can give. So long as he remains master of his machinery it will serve him well, and his power of artistic expression will be freed rather than stifled by turning over to it work it is meant to do.”

“It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.”

Thinking Mean Problem Would Be Today Past Work Mankind Method Naive Solved Problems

Book:A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988

Source: A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988

“If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.”

Ifs Men May Mean States Type Accounts Method Excuse Doctrine Peculiar Ministry Temperament Baptists Adapted Corresponding Methodists Episcopalians

Author:George Horace Lorimer

“Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.”

Ifs Way Firsts Mean Ideas Courses Steps Path Progress Method Progressive Transition

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.”

Source: Selected speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (1927 - 1956)

“We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies... That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.”

Ifs World Needs Mean Done Use Sides Dark Achieve Source Shadow Method Folks Available Objectives Discussion Agency End Times Spend Time Dark Side Intelligence Agencies

Author:Dick Cheney

“But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.”

Men Humans Mean Order Universe Change Chance Views Responsibility Roles Risk Acceptance Innovation Method Certainty Assertion Taking Risks Human Power

Author:Peter Drucker

“Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.”

Humans Mean Character Organization Method University Contagious

Book:Essays, Comments, and Reviews

Source: Essays, Comments, and Reviews

“Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place i1legally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.”

Mean Done Facts Used Courses Numbers Media Birth Percent Method Myth Primaries Abortion Feds Annuals Birth Control

Author:Bernard Nathanson

“Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing now. It may also be said to be the method of keeping a customer reasonably dissatisfied with what he has. That means constant improvement and change so that the customer will be stimulated to desire the new product enough to buy it to replace the one he has.”

Trying May Mean Said Enough Desire Products Research Method Constant Customers Improvement Organized Dissatisfied New Products Constant Improvement

Author:Charles Kettering

“Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.”

Source: The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

“We're opening the doors to people launching missiles and dropping bombs by taking the human out of the decision chain for deciding how we should respond to these threats. And this is something we're seeing more and more happening in the traditional means as our methods of warfare become increasingly automated and roboticized such as through drone warfare.”

People Should Humans Mean Decision Seeing Doors Happenings Method Threat Opening Traditional Chains Bombs Warfare Dropping Missiles Drones Launching Dropping Bombs

Author:Edward Snowden

“The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. ... They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action. Einstein's Theory of Relativity”

Mean Body Action Theory Involved Concepts Difficulty Method Equations Adequate Describing Relativity Theories Of Relativity Differential Equations Adequate Means

Author:Max Born

“Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.”

“Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.”

“This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.”

May Mean Principles Economy Achieve Effects Method Deliberate Scientific Method

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.”

Men Mean Made Use Ought Honor Method Great Men

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable by addition simply, than any other mathematical principle, it was very appropriately selected as the basis on which to construct an Adding Machine, so as to give to the powers of such a machine the widest possible range.”

Giving Mean Facts Differences Results Numbers Principles Machines Bases Method Mathematical Range Constructs Selected

Author:Ada Lovelace

“The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".”

World Way May Mean Different Seems Order Strong Powerful Effects Produce Weak Shame Method Instruments Contrary Likes Rosary

Author:Columba Marmion

“When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.”

Mean I Can Shows Humor Light Funny Left Minutes Worst Stage Red Method Clubs Frightened Candle Floating Red Lights

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Every time you sort of let go of the bar, you knew someone was there to catch you, and vice versa. And, I mean, come on. It's Method Man. It's been a dream to meet him forever.”

Men Mean Dream Forever Letting Go Method Vices Bars Vice Versa

Author:Josh Peck

“Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?”

Ifs Mean Ends Running Purpose Fun Realizing Late Method Lays Satisfaction Deny Practicals Too Late Breasts Justify Tape Stopping Ends Justify The Means Satisfaction In Life

Author:Walt Kelly

“A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.”

Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe

“The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.”

People Ifs Should Mean Has Beens Government Humanity Pay Taxes Method Credit Producers Consumers Manipulation Commerce Employed Obliged Fixing Financiers

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.”

Men Mean Whole Concepts Method Depth Proof Ethical Maxims Demoralization

Book:My Disillusionment in Russia

Source: My Disillusionment in Russia

“The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.”

Men Mean Reason Force Animal He Man Method Attempting

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.”

Ifs Mean Young Black White Results Study Acceptance Female Universal Method Males Merit Inquiry Assertion Rigor Black Or White Apolitical

Author:Michael Crichton

“Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action”

Mean Doe Action Evil Principles Struggle Creative Violence Building Demand Hatred Method Active Oppression Compromise Courageous Passive Using Me Acquiescence Disunity

Author:Pope John Paul II

“When somebody is determined to whup your ass, without regard to any concern for what is fair, you must recognize that the only alternative is to whup his ass by whatever means or methods are available.”

Mean Concern Fairs Regard Method Available Determined Ass Alternatives

Author:Robert Stacy McCain

“We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.”

Feels Mean Ideas Earth Energy Perfect Forever Possibility Materials Development Waste Method Stores Mediums Realization Evolve Operations Engines Consumption Obtaining

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.”

“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.”

Men Mean Use Eye Water Position Method Arguing Permanent His Eyes Gas Shells Warfare Sheer Favour Adopted Conferences Fragments Poisonous Bursting Retention Poison Gas Chemical Warfare

Author:Winston Churchill

“People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.”

People Wells Mean Different Actors Given Method Prepared Whatever Works

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.”

Kind Mean Art Self Today Artist Challenges Consciousness Materials Conscious Method Instruments Sensibility Self Conscious Modifying

Author:Susan Sontag

“I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writing for 12 hours a day and just going through the motions with my worldly business because the compulsion to write descends upon me like a kind of madness. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it feels that way when it strikes.”

Way Feels Writing Kind Mean Long Three Hours Week Periods Madness Method Strikes Dramatic Worldly Compulsion Long Periods Of Time

Author:Kevin Keck

“I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious reasons: because they were people who were basically oriented in the direction of the established method of not confronting the power structure, but trying to elicit concessions by various and sundry means of, well, let's call it accommodating leadership.”

People Thinking Trying Wells Mean Persons Book Reason Method Structure Obvious Various Borders Confronting Concessions Reverends

Author:Ella Baker

“Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared with other agencies, a relatively superficial means. Only as we have grasped the necessity of more fundamental and persistent modes of tuition can we make sure of placing the scholastic methods in their true context.”

Mean Important School Form Method Fundamentals Agency Superficial Disposition Persistent Immature Transmission Tuition Scholastics

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Since I'm not a method actor, I don't actually feel angry or feel that I'm being mean, I just do it because I'm acting the part, doing my job and playing the role.”

Feels Mean Jobs Actors Acting Roles Method Angry Just Do It Being Me Being Mean

Author:Sophie Nelisse

“The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.”

Men Mean Seems Birth Method Radical Birth Control Sterilization

Author:Indira Gandhi