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“Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.”

Men May Mean Long Has Beens Taken Doubt Intellectual Majority Dare Granted Reasoning Free Man Taken For Granted Intellectual Freedom

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.”

Mean Animal Taken Rights Vote Conclusion Logical Animal Rights Oysters

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.”

Giving Mean Turns Speak Steps Taken Nice Pride Circles Nice Things Steps Forward

Author:Roger Federer

“The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.”

Men Humans Mean Art Book Action Form Teach Taken Majors Aim Deeper Permanent Theme Ethical Norm Be A Man Great Book Human Actions Eliot Literary Art Permanent Things

Author:Russell Kirk

“I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.”

Needs Mean Acting Taken Lessons

Author:Miley Cyrus

“It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.”

Men May Mean Moments Law Values Lines Taken Fate Divine Duty Ambition Obstacles Setting Settings Luxury Contentment Conformity Avarice Greatest Obstacles Divine Will Resigning

Author:Seneca the Younger

“By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.”

Mean Hands Social Taken Special Limits Function Crisis Productions Credit Driving Capitalist Vehicle Banking Distribution Banking System

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

“I'm certainly not on a mission to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress, any more than I am just to be able to get roles that are exciting and satisfying to me. If that means action, then that means action.”

Ifs Mean Able Action Roles Taken Exciting Missions Actresses Dramatic Satisfying

Author:Zoe Bell

“Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it means to be torn between cultures, what it means to be taken over by other cultures.”

Mean Culture Issues Taken Conflict Torn Other Cultures

Author:Forest Whitaker

“Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.”

Mean Used Creative Knowing Taken Sells Tricks Be Creative Being Wise Shortcuts

Author:Pauline Kael

“Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.”

Mind Mean Long Character Can Do Steps Taken Machines Mere Senses Gathering Power Of The Mind Outgoing

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.”

Want Mean Taken Consequence Vegetables Modernity Disruptive Ennui

Author:Terence McKenna

“Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.”

“I felt so proud to be having a baby and so excited. And I felt closer to other women - to my sisters, to my mom. I felt empowered, like, 'I've given birth. I did it! There's nothing I can't handle.' I've really enjoyed this time that I have taken to be with Suri, as well as the challenges of the first couple of months: feeding and pumping, learning to decipher what each cry means - is she hungry? Is she tired? Does she need a fresh diaper? - and figuring out how to really help her.”

“I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.”

Want Should Mean Facts Reality Process Natural Taken Seeing Changed Productions Granted Evaluate Taken For Granted Sensing

Book:Olafur Eliasson: photographs

Source: Olafur Eliasson: photographs