Meaning Quotes
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Some important aspects of important aspects of economic organization take on a new meaning when they are considered from the viewpoint of the search of information.
George Stigler
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Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.
Nir Hod
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
Michel Foucault
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We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
Alessandro Baricco
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal
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Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Though in application it works splendidly, we do not even understand the physical meaning of quantum mechanics, much less how it might be united with general relativity.
Gerald Holton
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She was suggesting that I separate also from my third child. She seemed to be saying: Imma would be better off and so would you. I replied: If Imma leaves me, too, my life will no longer have meaning. But she smiled: Where is it written that lives should have meaning?
Elena Ferrante
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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
Michel Foucault
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I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
Lewis Carroll
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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.
Bernice L. McFadden
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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.
Eva Green
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The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.
Evelyn Underhill
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Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.
Marcel Proust
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Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.
Anthony Robbins
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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.
Arthur Helps
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
Brett Dennen
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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.
Mother Teresa
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
Satish Kumar
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
Lewis Carroll
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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
Ben Jelen