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• The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• If leading worship is just about bringing a group of people into a room so we can get goosebumps and sing songs together, there's not much value in that. But if leading worship is a means to an end, that we leave this place as a different kind of people, as part of a new humanity that God wants to create... then that matters.

  Michael Gungor

  Song, Mean, People

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• We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

  Francis Chan

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Unique, Reality

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences

  William Whewell

  Art, Knowledge, Mean

  William Whewell (1858). “Novum organon renovatum”, p.129

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• I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Mean, Guitar

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• There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Mean, Men, Pleasure

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• Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Funny Things, Departure

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• Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Levels, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.108, New World Library

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• Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

  Robert Fripp

  Mean, Discipline, Ends

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• I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

  Ian Anderson

  Mean, Guitar, Eric

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• I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

  Michelle Shocked

  Inspirational, Funny, Mean

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• I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

  Rachel Nichols

  School, Mean, Graduates

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• Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

  Malcolm Arnold

  Passion, Writing, Mean

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• How do we professionally manage content? We don’t. We shouldn’t manage content in the same way that we shouldn’t manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.

  Gerry McGovern

  Mean, Technology, Wish

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• We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Mean, Animal

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.18, Advaita Ashrama

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• I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Helping Others, America

  "Eva Longoria on Business, Beauty, and Mastering Her Signature Smoky Eye". Interview with Patricia Reynoso, www.glamour.com. March 17, 2015.

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• Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mean, Sake, Ends

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.15, Sounds True

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• Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Style, Stories

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• Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

  John Galsworthy

  Mean, Trials, Wealth

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7654, Delphi Classics

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• Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

  Charlotte Moss

  Real, Mean, Ends

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• Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

  Peter Gleick

  Mean, Water, Ends

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• Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.

  Vasily Grossman

  Lying, Struggle, Party

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• Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

  Adolf Hitler

  Reading, Mean, Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.66, eKitap Projesi

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• Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Pain, Believe

  Charles F. Stanley “How to Handle Adversity”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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