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• Successful living does not mean accumulating material things, it means inner peace of mind; it means that gift of being able to adjust oneself to everyone else; it also means that all your needs for daily living will be taken care of by God.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Life, Taken, Successful

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• Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

  Daniel Starch

  Agency, Competition, Progress

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• The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation.

  Barack Obama

  Mass Destruction, Nuclear, Weapons

  Barack Obama during debate with Republican former Ambassador Alan Keyes, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Simple, Effort, Disarmament

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• Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.

  Joseph Curiale

  Change, Courage, Should

  Joseph Curiale (2011). “The Spirit of Creativity: Thoughts on Living One's Creative Truth”, p.9, BookBaby

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• If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.

  Eric Butterworth

  Courage, Jobs, Business Deals

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• In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Community, Decision, Ownership

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• So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue to use it everywhere all over the world there. And I think, in a way, nonviolence is our nature. Violence is not really our nature. If violence was our nature, we wouldn't need military academies and martial arts institutes to teach us how to kill and destroy people. We ought to have been born with those instincts. But the fact that we have to learn the art of killing means that it's a learned experience. And we can always unlearn it.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Art, Military, Thinking

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

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• If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  World Government, Rights, Law

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• If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

  Pope John Paul II

  Communication, Responsibility, Media

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• I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.

  Herbie Hancock

  Moving, Organization, Perfect

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• Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Worthwhile Things, Self

  "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.

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• Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Succeed

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• Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Secret, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.255, Applewood Books

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• I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

  Annie Lennox

  Dream, Loss, Years

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• I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.

  Jamie Dimon

  Fall, Risk, Growth

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• You don't seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other; be in tune with each other, dance in harmony.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Tunes, Needs

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• The question of surrender is political, it is not a question of love. And relationship is not love at all; it means love has ended and relationship has begun. It begins very soon after the honeymoon - mostly in the middle of the honeymoon. It is not easy to live with another person whose life-style is different, whose likings are different, whose education and culture is different, and above all the other happens to be a woman - even their biology is different.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Political, Style

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• Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Aquifers, Air

  "Possibility and Hope". Interview with Linda C. Forbes, monthlyreview.org. January 1, 2015.

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• Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive.

  Jason Mewes

  Weed, Marijuana, Sometimes

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• Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, People, Growth

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.70, Random House

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• The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Rights, Dramatic

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• I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Animal, Boys

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• The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Men, Talking

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• To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

  Epictetus

  Aging

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.490

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