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mean something

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You can only offend me if you mean something to me. Chris Rock

Conspiracy theory was tremendously popular, always and forever. People wanted such catastrophes to mean something more than mere individual madness, and so the hunt was on. Kim Stanley Robinson

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. Lester Bangs

It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids. Lucas Grabeel

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something. William Goldman

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else. John Searle

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