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There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam. — Paul Bowles

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God. — John Buchan

Engaging in Socratic question-and-answer dialectic is the key and indispensable means by which to sustain this commitment to care for one's own soul. — John M. Cooper

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively. — Ken Keyes Jr.

Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor
which means
By soft words must love be fostered — Janet Aylmer

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which "similar" things coincide, without there being any apparent cause. — C. G. Jung

Marrying into a different culture means you are not trapped by your own, which is how I felt." Wang — Angela Nicoara

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. — Gene Sharp

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time. — Romesh Gunesekera

Ordinary human laws are the means
however imperfect
by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. — Russell Kirk

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter. — Thomas H. Cook

It seems obvious that the universe is a system which, by means of living bodies, becomes aware of itself - up to a point. — Alan W. Watts

It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined. — Augusto Boal

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? — Saint Augustine

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. — Francis Bacon

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable. — Edgar Allan Poe

Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God. — R.C. Sproul

You're a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, which means you were not made to be self-sufficient. — John Ortberg

Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us. — R.C. Sproul

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures
are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures. — Epicurus

A civilization was the means by which too many people could live together despite their mutual hatred. — Steven Erikson

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey

Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end. — Richard Sennett

Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ. — Lee Strobel

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch. — William III Of England

On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance. — Terry Pratchett

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord. — Saint Ignatius

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable. — Jan Struther

So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can't be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated. — Peter F. Hamilton

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides

The gospel is not just the means by which people get converted but also the way Christians solve their problems and grow. — Timothy Keller

Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves. — Theodore Dalrymple

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all. — Muhammad Yunus

Bodybuilding has come to be seen as a means by which boys can turn desire into identification. — Mark Simpson

This is a fine chance to let go, to "win my life by losing it," which means not recklessness but acceptance, not passivity but nonattachment. — Peter Matthiessen

I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well. — Melissa Cady

Energy is our most precious resource, for it is the means by which we transform our creative potential into meaningful action. — Tarthang Tulku

There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here — Edgar Rice Burroughs

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them--by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents. — Jane Austen

The result of preaching totalitarian doctrines is to weaken the instinct by means of which free peoples know what is or is not dangerous. — George Orwell

There are two means by which we may be led into the higher forms of prayer. One is Meditation, the other is Meditative Reading. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. — Margaret Chase Smith

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. — F.R. Leavis

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me. — Charles L. Allen

Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up. — Samuel Daniel

Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do. — Terry Pratchett

For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies. — Walter Lippmann

I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means. — Darynda Jones

The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread. — Clive James

Words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves. — Joseph Pearce

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it. — Harry Turtledove

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan

The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position. — Monica Esposito

A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates. — Bernard Bloch

He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you. — Christopher Moore

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many. — Howard W. Koch

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others). — George Saunders

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out. — Ron Currie Jr.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one. — Richard M. Weaver

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health. — Avicenna

The only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat. — Oakley Hall

The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost. — N. T. Wright

The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint. — Ramana Maharshi

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us. — Timothy Keller

She thought I was ... soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off. — Nick Hornby

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go. — J. P. Morgan

authentic curses, which means "misfortune caused by the intervention of the devil. — Marco Tosatti

Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives. — Sallie Tisdale

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed — Samuel Johnson

Lord Orville seemed by no means to think the Captain worthy an argument, upon a subject concerning which he had neither knowledge nor feeling. — Fanny Burney

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process. — Wietse Venema

The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself. — Brandon Sanderson

As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself. — Elena Ferrante

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. — Joyce Carol Oates

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested. — Maria Montessori

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse — William James

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! — Mikhail Lermontov

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. — Robert Breault

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality — Daido Moriyama

What do you mean by yuanfen?"
She thought for a minute and replied, "It means: that apportionment of love which is destined for you in this world. — Lan Samantha Chang

Keeing busy is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. — Joyce Carol Oates

Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom ... — Margaret Sanger

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part. — Edmund Burke

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered. — Christopher Hitchens

The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings. — Charles R. Swindoll