5,159 Quotes About Mean
- Author Francis Bacon
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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
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- Author Francis Bacon
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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- Author Frank Brown
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Because it was so controversial, we said, 'Let's show people we mean what we said,'
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- Author Frédéric Bastiat
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If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is done now; we desire that it be done better. There is however, a point on this road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it.
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- Author Frédéric Bastiat
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Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.
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- Author Garth Brooks
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There's two dates in time That they'll carve on your stone And everyone knows what they mean What's more important Is the time that is known In that little dash there in between That little dash there in between
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- Author Gary Bauer
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The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.
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- Author Gary Busey
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Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.
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- Author George Bancroft
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Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
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