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"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
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"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."
"No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything."
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
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"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."
"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."
"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."
"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."
"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."
"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."
"He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white - skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest."
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