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Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
Jules Verne
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What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
Reid Hoffman
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My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is needed for people to watch my theatre is a freshness and openness of mind.
Eugene Ionesco
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.


David Icke
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I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
Stefanie Powers
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!


Samuel Adams
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Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.


Shirley Hufstedler
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Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.


Reed Hundt
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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.


Katherine Mansfield
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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.


Paul Ricoeur
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
Paula Cole
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
Pamela Anderson
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Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
Billy Collins
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I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.


Zoe McLellan
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It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman
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Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
Don Miguel Ruiz
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The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
Herbert Read
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