5,159 Quotes About Mean

  • Author Tariq Ramadan
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    "If we had not created a set of people against another the world would have been corrupt", and "against" here means two things: Against in the fact that they are challenging you with their diversity, challenging your intelligence and to challenge is not negative, it can be very positive depending on how you are challenged.

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  • Author Theodore Roethke
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    I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

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  • Author Theodore Roosevelt
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    Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

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  • Author Theodore Roosevelt
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    Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

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  • Author Theodore Roosevelt
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    It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

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  • Author Theodore Roosevelt
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    Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

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  • Author Theodore Roosevelt
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    Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

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  • Author Theodore Roosevelt
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    Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.

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