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• With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.

  Michael Douglas

  Son, People, Political

  "Michael Douglas Pens Op-Ed on Anti-Semitism: 'We Can Stop the Spread of This Madness" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

  Liu Xiang

  Challenges, Overcoming, Mets

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Money is a mystery. Not only is our behavior with respect to money sometimes puzzling and erratic, but our feelings about money are often contradictory, illogical, deep-rooted, and scarcely known even to our most secret selves. We are getting better at handling money, but what it means to us, how we use it to express ourselves, and how it can help us become all that we are meant to be remain murky issues.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Money, Mean, Issues

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• Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.

  Don DeLillo

  Legs, Want, Heat

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.228, Vintage

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• Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

  Denis Waitley

  Simple, Yield, Common Sense

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• The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.

  Jerry Bridges

  Needs, Realization, Merit

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.8, NavPress

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• In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

  Neil MacGregor

  Wine, Cups, Firsts

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• The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

  Michael J. Saylor

  Government, Apples, Google

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• However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

  Lionel Shriver

  Hungry, Deficiency, Satiety

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• The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Two, Three

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• It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Mirrors, Portraits

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.

  John Maus

  Decision, Earning, Force

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• To the men and women who own men and women
  those of us meant to be lovers
  we will not pardon you
  for wasting our bodies and time

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Men, Body

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• Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Father, Men

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• People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.

  Neko Case

  Country, Song, Stupid

  "Neko Case: Thrice All American". Interview with Michaelangelo Matos, www.furious.com.

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• For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

  Denis O'Hare

  Mean, Stories, Hearing

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• Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.

  Ron Paul

  War, Responsibility, Army

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• Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Things Are Meant To Be, Knows, Ifs

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• Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

  Paul Davies

  Self, Details, Awareness

  Paul Davies (1993). “Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Video games are meant to be just one thing. Fun. Fun for everyone!

  Satoru Iwata

  Fun, Games, Video

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• Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Were Not Meant To Be, Unendurable

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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• Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

  Willie Mays

  Success, Baseball, Running

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• Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Resistance, Violence, Were Meant To Be

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• The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.

  Anna Quindlen

  Country, California, Diversity

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

  Peggy Noonan

  Influence, Function, Performances

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