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• Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

  Abdullah Ibrahim

  Mean, Men, Ends

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• A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.179, Penguin

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• Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.

  Ben Harper

  Mean, Rose, Enemy

  Song: Roses From My Friends, 2001

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• Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Mean, Ministry, Revolution

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• We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.

  Satish Kumar

  Mean, Consciousness, Commodity

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Art, Mean

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• If leading worship is just about bringing a group of people into a room so we can get goosebumps and sing songs together, there's not much value in that. But if leading worship is a means to an end, that we leave this place as a different kind of people, as part of a new humanity that God wants to create... then that matters.

  Michael Gungor

  Song, Mean, People

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• The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

  Lady Gaga

  Mean, People, Ends

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• I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Exercise, Light

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Mean, Acquisition, Alternatives

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• Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

  David Crystal

  Mean, Independent, People

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• Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

  Jean Chretien

  Country, Mean, Want

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• For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

  Peter Greenaway

  Mean, Cinema, Ends

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• Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Real, Mistake, Drama

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• Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Evil

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• Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

  Satish Kumar

  Mean, Corporations, Making Money

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

  Moby

  Mean, Dating, Feelings

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 09, 2011.

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• Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Car, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Mean, Moments

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end.

  Otto Weininger

  Mean, Past, Men

  Otto Weininger (1907). “Sex & Character”

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• We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

  Francis Chan

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

  Michele Cassou

  Art, Mean, Over You

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.161, Penguin

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• The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Self, Land

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Mean, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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