Muhammad Ali

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

American Boxer

Steve Jobs

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

American Businessman

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

French Writer

Carl Jung

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Swiss Psychologist

Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

British Statesman

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

German Writer

Stephen Hawking

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

English Physicist

Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

American Author

Audrey Hepburn

Water is life, and clean water means health.

British Actress

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

American Writer

Use 'mean' to express what someone intends to do, especially emphasizing determination.

Expressing Intent

Say 'I didn't mean to' to apologize and express that an action was unintentional.

Apologizing

Look for the indirect message or implication beyond the literal words.

Hidden Meanings

Understand 'mean' as interpreting signs or omens in expressions or nature.

Interpreting Signs

Recognize 'mean' as a description of someone's negative behavior or actions.

Negative Behavior

Remember, 'mean' often refers to emotional harm, not physical.

Not Physically Harmful

Use 'mean' to ask for explanations of words or phrases that aren't clear.

Seeking Clarification

Describe someone's humble economic status without being disrespectful.

Economical Status

In math, 'mean' is a specific term for an average value, important in statistics.

Academic Context

Understand that 'mean' can involve weighted values in more complex mathematics.

Beyond Simple Average

 Quantum theory adds a whole new wrinkle. I mean, the theory's been proven true beyond all doubt, but interpreting it is baffling, and some physicists think you can only un-baffle it if you imagine that huge numbers of parallel universes are being spawned every moment, and many of these universes would actually be very like the world we're in,

Questions No One Knows...

 that there's no clear evidence that social media causes narcissism. Rather, it provides narcissists a means to seek social status and attention. So can narcissists improve on those negative traits? Yes! Anything that promotes honest reflection on their own behavior and caring for others,

The psychology of...

 The youngsters could have their own pups, but for the alpha couple, that would mean more mouths to feed and less for their litter. So, the alpha couple will actively discourage last year's offspring from mating. But one of their daughters has other ideas.

Daughter Wolf Sneaks...

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How to create a great...

 chances are you belong to the world's bilingual and multilingual majority. And besides having an easier time traveling or watching movies without subtitles, knowing two or more languages means that your brain

The benefits of a...

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Rethinking infidelity...

 can't get no peace this is what you were meant to do you just got to launch your power

Mean

To have something as a purpose or intention; to intend.

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To indicate or suggest.

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Unkind, spiteful, or unfair.

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To signify, show, or indicate.

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Having little money or few possessions.

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The value obtained by dividing the sum of several amounts by their number; average.

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Expressing Intent

Apologizing

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