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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
  • Never
  • Write

• Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Truth

• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Future
  • Party
  • Politics

• I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Important
  • Know
  • Doing

• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Business
  • Want
  • Hand

• In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Small
  • College

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • True
  • Crime
  • Stranger

• As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • You
  • Change
  • Stubborn

• I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Great
  • Think
  • Hand

• If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • America
  • Doing
  • Understand

• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • World
  • Nature

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
  • Starter

• Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

  

  Juan Manuel Santos
  • Health
  • Jobs
  • Priorities

• As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Government
  • Cutting

• in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.

  

  M. S. Golwalkar
  • Long
  • Country
  • Children

• One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Man is a being in search of meaning.

  

  Plato
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