Meaning Quotes
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Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
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Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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If the whole meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
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I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's words "eternal death " into so horrible a meaning? And even if he did use other words, and seem to countenance such a meaning for them (and what witness have we that He did, except that of men whose ignorance or prejudice might well have interpreted these words wrongly as they did so many others?
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In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
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I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.
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And finally the silence, looking out, looking back across the sky, Trying to find a meaning, knowing that I just left it all behind
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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
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All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.
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An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
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I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
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Women were always ready to give themselves over for love, when all the men really had to offer them was the word and not the meaning behind it.
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If I don't have a meaning to what I am doing, I am not convinced to be a part of that activity.
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It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.
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There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.
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I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.
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If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.
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The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.
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It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
