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I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers, fiction, literature, people

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Quote by Lord Acton about end, liberty

However, our society thinks that success means having a car and a lot of money and looking as white as you can or as American as you can. Or if you're white, looking as exotic as you can. We don't have any idea that it's about our hearts and our...

Quote by Erykah Badu about contentment, society, americans, success, idea, money, people

What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out...

Quote by Erykah Badu about music, dance, people

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about word, thinking, man

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Quote by John Adams about knowledge

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

Quote by Gerry Adams about army, leadership, time

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Quote by Aesop about enemies, destruction

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

Quote by Andre Agassi about world, contentment

It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.

Quote by Andre Agassi about contentment, end, day

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about value, friendship, life, love

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about word, common sense, sense, love

You have a sense of responsibility, and for me that means keeping my voice in shape.

Quote by Michael Bolton about voice, common sense, sense, contentment

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

Quote by Aristotel about opinion, character

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.

Quote by Aristotel about people, happiness, man, life

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

Quote by Aristotel about tragedy, emotions, attention, action, fear

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about ignorance, greatness, impossible

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Quote by Albert Camus about reality, city, society, life

That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

Quote by Albert Camus about humor, idea