“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.”
G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
[Beth, Fouhy, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/25/fouhy.maloney/, A new version of the ERA, CNN.com, 1999-08-25, 2007-03-30]
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.”
G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Smaragde Mbonyintege (1947) Rwandan Catholic bishop (born 1947)
Source: Catholic Church maintains its stand on abortion, says Bishop Mbonyintege https://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/192233 (5 September 2015)
“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
Source: Horton Hears a Who!
“Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author
"A Note on Cabellian Harmonics" in Cabellian Harmonics (April 1928)
Context: A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically and actually, — whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Patheos, Anti-theist Answers to Christian Questions http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2015/11/22/anti-theist-answers-to-christian-questions/ (November 22, 2015)
“Shasana means rules someone else imposes on you. Anushasana means rules you impose on yourself.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/311774201012948992 (13 March 2013) <br class="br">Twitter
Ma Fuxiang (1876–1932) Chinese politician
In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China, Upton Close, 2007, READ BOOKS, 271, 1-4067-1675-8, 440, 2010-06-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=DpQa22PJutwC&dq=arab+mercenaries+china&q=They+have+not+enjoyed+the+educational+and+political+privileges+of+the+Han+chinese%2C+and+they+are+in+many+respects+primitive#v=snippet&q=They%20have%20not%20enjoyed%20the%20educational%20and%20political%20privileges%20of%20the%20Han%20chinese%2C%20and%20they%20are%20in%20many%20respects%20primitive&f=false,