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Meaning Quotes
"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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"The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing."
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"Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life."
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"The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords."
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"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
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"America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we value democracy and the rights of the individual, but because we are always our own most effective voice of descent....We must never mistake disagreement between Americans on political or moral issues to be an indication of their level of patriotism. If you don't like what I say or don't agree with where I stand on certain issues, then good. I'm glad we're in America, and don't have to oppress each other over it. We're not just a nation, we're not an ethnicity. We are a dream of justice that people have had for a thousand years."
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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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"Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the 'meaner' meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading."
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"And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that poor old uniparous whore and myself the last of my foul brood, neither man nor beast."
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"Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning."
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"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
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"We cannot replicate other people's lives. We must each institute and broker a personalized meaning to our exclusive existence. We must each serve as our own Zen master, awaken to our inviolate personal truth, and strive to fulfill our sui generis (unique) nature."
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
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"Nothing is as important as your calling and purpose in life."
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"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
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"For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability."
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"Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of life's turbulences stems from willingly capitulating to whatever fomented experiences life brings us without harboring a disconsolate degree of remorse or regret."
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"The true meaning of your life doesn't lie in your experiences, but in your frequent positive interpretations of your past and present."
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"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
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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."
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"But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words."
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"The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end."
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"The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else."
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"The thing about 'colour' is that it's not all about the money or the prestige, but it's about showing what life is all about. Without it..."
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"Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself."
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"From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do."
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