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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle
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Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

Clifford Stoll
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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up? -Chuck Palahniuk
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You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

Matt Groening
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When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective.

Arundhati Roy
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The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. -Andre Gide
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung
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Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little.

Oscar Wilde
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.  It does not mean to stand by the president. -Theodore Roosevelt
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Robert Frost
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My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

William Shakespeare
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. -Horace Mann
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.

T. S. Eliot
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It is impossible to say just what I mean! -T. S. Eliot
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Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

Storm Jameson
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Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.

Matt Groening
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When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing. -Theodore Roosevelt
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Charles M. Schulz
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Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. -Les Brown
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We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Niccolo Machiavelli
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The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra
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I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30. -Mike Ditka
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

Confucius
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What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Confucius
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Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express. -William Cobbett
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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