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If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.
Fred Rogers
Good
Day
Parenting
Understanding
Believe
Our
Ourselves
Would
Exactly
Able
Come
Accept
Came
Were
Ultimate
Very
Close
Children
Then
Means
Ever
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
G. Willow Wilson
You
People
Tolerance
Think
Other
Respecting
No Idea
Idea
Real
Means
Even
Why
It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?
Goldie Hawn
You
Wonderful
Know
Because
Still
Planet
Means
Aging
Right
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Harry Crews
Beautiful
Nature
Hurt
Closed
Whatever
Wound
Scar
Scars
About
Something
Over
Healed
Done
Means
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.
Hassan Rouhani
Respect
Rights
Achieve
Diplomacy
Approach
Address
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Objectives
Constructive
Shared
Counterparts
Footing
Equal
Concerns
Mean
Means
Engaging
Basis
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
Education
World
Girl
Settling
Further
Introduce
Give
Properly
Ten
She
Well
Without
Expense
Anybody
Means
Her
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Jean Cocteau
Man
Myth
Few
Alcohol
Unable
Lies
Seeks
Give
He
Withdraw
Him
Himself
Comfort
Does
His
Escape
Any
Inaccuracy
Means
Moments
Disposal
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet
Me
Creativity
Insanity
Imagination
Super
Normal
Lack
Psychotic
Means
Sanity
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
John Berger
Life
Beautiful
Alone
Single
Believe
Would
Find
Inserted
More
Lead
Crystal
Course
Single Life
Existence
Than
Us
Means
Less
Poppy
Deeply
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
John P. Kotter
Anxiety
Fear
Complacency
Panic
State
Virtually
Rate
Absent
Higher
Imply
Does
Which
Urgency
Means
If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
Jose Mujica
Politics
People
World
Think
Our
Everything
Direction
Could
Countries
Global
Within
Prudent
Being
Moving
Should
Means
Billion
Lived
Species
Needed
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Joyce Brothers
Life
You
Become
Compliment
Taken
Taken For Granted
Another
Comfortable
Trusted
Person
Being
Means
Granted
Element
I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.
Kiefer Sutherland
Love
Me
You
Getting Older
World
School
Made
Daughter
First
Picture
Older
Changed
Out
Kindergarten
Never
Written
Like
She
First Thing
Because
Always
Getting
The First Thing
Love You
Means
Fun
Daddy
Traveled
Ever
Her
Thing
Resistance
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
Lewis Carroll
Word
Neither
Rather
More
Said
Nor
Scornful
Just
Mean
Means
Use
Choose
Less
Tone
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis
Government
Law
Conviction
Crimes
Criminal
Criminal Law
Secure
Administration
Would
Retribution
Terrible
Private
End
Commit
May
Order
Justifies
Declare
Means
Bring
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
Luke Scott
Government
People
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Controlling
Starts
Means
I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
Lynn Barber
Freedom
You
Nobody Cares
Cares
Total
Freedom Means
Nobody
Selfishness
Much
Means
If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
Malala Yousafzai
Future
You
Generation
Focus
Country
Destroying
Means
Your
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria Callas
Teacher
Best
Good
Great
Pupil
Good Teachers
Between
Great Teachers
Make
Foresee
Difference
Ends
Means
Teachers
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori
Education
Saying
Giving
Power
We Cannot
Through
Observation
Observe
Observers
Senses
Cannot
Them
Procured
Create
Means
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
Marshall McLuhan
World
Valuable
Collective
Own
Unity
Increasingly
Our
Insight
Rather
Direction
Purposes
Most
Becomes
Real
Affair
Provide
Than
Modern
Arts
Modern World
Social
Means
Techniques
Technological
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
Faith
Vision
Face
Practice
Some
Perfection
Perform
Over
Inviting
Obstacles
Again
Means
Act
Desire
Desired
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
Martin Heidegger
Time
Every
Everything
Right Time
Say
Remains
Name
Goes
Being
Which
Means
Actually
Right
Thing
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
Michael Ramsey
Attitude
Faith
Knowledge
You
Yourself
Mind
Action
Possession
Something
Person
Being
Stake
Means
Reason
Prepared
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Neil Gaiman
Love
You
Heart
Inside
Horrible
Someone
Opens
Mess
Vulnerable
Makes
Been
Chest
Up
Get
Means
Your
Ever
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
P. T. Barnum
Try
Medicine
Feeble
Dying
Aching
Which
Poor
Means
Keep
Creatures
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