Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,...
IMMANUEL KANT Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
MODEST MUSSORGSKY Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
FELIX FRANKFURTER Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.
FELIX FRANKFURTER Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; ...
DAVID CRYSTAL Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what...
JEAN CHRETIEN Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end, ... Canadians must now decide ...
JEAN CHRETIEN Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
LORD ACTON And yet, what seems to be the most intimidating now is not an end in itself, but only a means to a g...
AISHWARYA BHUTA Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so tha...
BILLY COLLINS Family therapists view the therapeutic relationship as a means to an end rather than as an end in it...
JOSEPH A. MICUCCI As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled sec...
ROMINA RUSSELL And death is better because death is the end of fear, isnt it? -Dekka
MICHAEL GRANT Successful action tends to become an end in itself
ERIC HOFFER The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but...
VINCENT MCNABB The darkroom is just the means to an end.
KIM WESTON Food is more than just food. It's a means to an end, a means to getting people together.
DAVE LIEBERMAN Education is the means to end, not the end itself. Education should not become another status quo, o...
PEARL ZHU Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a n...
T.K. NALIAKA Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. ...
HENRY MILLER My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducin...
PETER SINGER For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in offic...
G. K. CHESTERTON Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
WALT DISNEY TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...
LAURA RIDING Good music is an end in and of itself. When you're doing it, it's really the most fun part.
DAVID CROSBY Just know that I always have, and always will really love you, Lisa. Baby or no baby. Past or no pas...
A. VIOLET END Look, that was some weird shit, you dying and then returning from the dead. I know it was no acciden...
A. VIOLET END The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of...
AVERY BRUNDAGE On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every comman...
EDITH STEIN Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.
SOPHIE SCHOLL Why wishing to see how the end of your good times will be?
Can’t you try to fight for those good t...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN The stronger the identification with the team, typically the stronger emotional reaction to the loss...
CHRISTIAN END Fans are relatively resilient in coping with loss. If we weren't, there would be no Cubs fans.
CHRISTIAN END In terms of popularity, what hobby compares to being a sports fan?
CHRISTIAN END When you're exposed to aggressive stimuli like you are in football, you're more prone to act in an a...
CHRISTIAN END When you're among 60,000 of your closest friends, your accountability diminishes. It's very differen...
CHRISTIAN END Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it ...
D. H. LAWRENCE Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. I...
HAIM GINOTT It was a program, an end-of-the-year program. It means you've been in a lot of clubs. Stuff like tha...
BALL STATE The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dre...
PAT BUCHANAN It is time to put an end to all this. It is time to put an end to his hatred and venom.
DAVID RASKIN I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, ...
DEYTH BANGER Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LEGUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
URSULA K. LEGUIN It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LEGUIN Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re...
GEORGE ORWELL It is an encouraging sign, but we don't know what it all means and where those smelt will end up.
JOE HYMER Happiness is the sense that my life is good because my biological needs are being met. Meaning is th...
JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as...
ECKHART TOLLE Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It ...
ROBERT REDFORD In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judg...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not t...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an ...
CHARLES SIMEON After all, money is only a means to an end!
It's only a tool to be used cautiously as well as sagaci...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.
[Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holi...
FLORENCE ALLSHORN Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON At the end of the day, it comes down to productivity, and that means not being tied to an office.
BOB VENERO There isnt always an explanation for everything.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right no...
ROBERT REDFORD The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're ...
ERIC ALLMAN When one teaches, two learn.
ROBERT HEINLEIN An end to the super-easy policy is still an important milestone toward an end to the era of zero int...
MICHIYOSHI KATO Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning.
SANTOSH KALWAR The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD It is now officially at an end.
RUSH LIMBAUGH I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see...
MICHELLE SHOCKED When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.
HIPPOCRATES Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
DANIEL BARBER Short-form video is an appetizer and can be used to create an appetite as opposed to extinguishing i...
MICHAEL GREESON When you have nothing nobody knows you.
When you have something everyone knows you.
If you're not wi...
REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
JIM FOX Live for today with your eyes on the future.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Don't let anyone blind you with their criticism, you're just beautiful.
AMAN JANGDA Everyone is good at something as long as they love that something.
ARDIT BALISHA
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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