Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive.
The definition of 'safe' is not strictly an engineering term; it's a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life? Does it mean absolutely no contamination with radiation? What exactly does 'safe' mean?
I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.
It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South.
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
