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"“I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.”
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"Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning." »Leo Braeck
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"Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning." »Leo Braeck
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"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is' My answer to that would be, 'No.'" »Aaron Copland
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"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." »Larry Hardiman
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"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers." »Erich Fromm
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"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers." »Erich Fromm
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"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." »Epictetus
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"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute...that gives meaning to our lives." »Anthony Robbins
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"Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words." »Chuang-tzu
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"The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent." »Sorin Cerin
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"Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them." »Epictetus
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"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one." »Albert Camus
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"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient." »William Shakespeare
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"What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning." »Kedar Joshi
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"When you love you give meaning to this world." »Sorin Cerin
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"James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." »Emil Brunner
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"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." »Leo Tolstoy
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"To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life." »Robert Browning
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"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." »Leo Tolstoy
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"The meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go." »Steven Wright
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"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." »Joseph Campbell
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"The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." »Carl Jung
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." »Hermann Hesse
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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." »Hannah Arendt
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"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." »Aristotle
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