#means

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe. ↗

— James J. Gibson

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with. ↗

— Rita Dove

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To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early. ↗

— Gunther Grass

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