Meaningful Quotes
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.
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And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
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You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.
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Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
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I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.
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I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.
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Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
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The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite.
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The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
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The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.
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You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.
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It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.
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When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.
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I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.
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Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
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I really think that life isn't logical and life isn't always meaningful. I'm just trying to go into that zone without being too random, and just trying to create some new logic [in moviemaking] that feels like dreams.
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If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
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It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
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We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.
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I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.
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The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.
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The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.
