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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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"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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"The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent." »Sorin Cerin
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"Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words." »Chuang-tzu
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"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." »Epictetus
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"Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them." »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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"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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"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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"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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"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." »Emil Brunner
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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 more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." »Leo Tolstoy
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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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"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right" »Charles Monroe Schultz
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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." »Aristotle Onassis
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson
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"Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning." »Michael R. Baer
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"When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them" »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder." »Aeschylus
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"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size" »Woody Allen
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"A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage." »Sir Walter Besant
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"Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves." »Herbert W. Boyer
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"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." »Bertha Flowers
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"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later." »Stanley Kubrick
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." »Erich Fromm
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