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"For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose."

"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"

"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"

"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."

"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God."

"It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object."
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"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine."

"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."
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