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Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde

Dying, Beyond, Alas

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom, Give, India

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan

Peace, Ability, Peaceful

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman

Love, Home, Woman

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare

Done, Makes, Deeds

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

Poetry, Emotions, Emotion

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

Peace, Great, Give

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle

Character, May, Almost

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller

Life, Live, Aim

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Confucius

Cannot, Himself, Simply

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

Political, Single, Left

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Down, Present, Bring

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
Angelina Jolie

Good, Crazy, Sexy

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw

Bible, Says, Believes

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom, Desire, Gold

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius

Government, May, Place

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle

Study, Making, Three

Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara

Silence, Argument, Carried

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington

Peace, War, Prepared

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon

Music, Art, Respect

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer

Life, Freedom, Living

Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

Life, Happiness, Men

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.
Michael Jordan

Same, Acting, Jordan

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking, Oneself, Conceal

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Music, Two

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato

Men, Business, Justice

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich Nietzsche

End, Woman, Child

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier

Life, Struggle, Nothing

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