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Footsteps on cracked pavement whisper musings we never knew lived within us; joy manifesting where intention falters.
Author:
Eliana Khansir
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The dance of shadows serves not as ephemeral tools of forgetting, but as whispers of time's unaligned secrets.
Author:
Elena Prices
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Fleeting shadows dance upon the canvas of parading hours; they remind us that the beauty of transition philosophy elucidates life pen simultaneously and imperfectly.
Author:
Anya Ramos
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Fleeting shadows remind us that even in our most vibrant moments, choosing to gather or let go shapes our perception of reality.
Author:
Esme Kinsler
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The dance of fleeting shadows teaches us that nothing lasts, yet every moment illuminates our path; in their ephemeral whispers lies the essence of truth we often seek.
Author:
Elara Sintar
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In every fleeting creation holds the universe's dance: a transient echo of existence that beckons us to ponder what lingers long after
Author:
Amara Hastings
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In the delicate whispers where noise finds ease and quiet joy reigns, we discover the heartbeat of connections--not striving for brilliance but relishing simple stitches woven fragile into festivity.
Author:
Amara Silverwood
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Amidst quiet laughter and gentle warmth, life's celebrations become memo of sincerity--comfortably approximating the profound.
Author:
Alex Winters
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Wisdom is a illumination that e?mulates briefly beyond darkness; alcaleness formed mid laughs seeds ambition.
Author:
Darling Columbus
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Sometimes, it is the unexpected turns on our journey that ignite our finest transformations and sprinkle stardust on the road ahead.
Author:
Elara Innovas
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Life's unexpected pathways often reveal treasures where certainties withdraw, stitching moments into the tapestry of our destinies.
Author:
Marissi Corbett
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Momentary encounters are not insignificant ripples in our existence; they are circles on the water that quietly rewire the essence of familiarity.
Author:
Relier Bloom
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Reflective silence holds within it the soft whisper of landscapes yet unfurled, inviting us to concoct meaning from stillness.
Author:
Aurora Stepford
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In the quiet dance between intention and action, it is the soft insistence of gentle urgency that moves mountains unseen.
Author:
Emma Chenn
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In silence, thoughts intertwine like cultures thriving in respect, cultivating undisturbed growth beyond the horizon of spoken expression.
Author:
Elara Morgan
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In the delicate exchange of mere words, we conjure intimacy anchored somewhere between our pauses - a fleeting camaraderie forged in life's ephemeral moments.
Author:
Eleanor Massey
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In the delicate ballet of fleeting conversations, we brush against the tapestry of infinity, fusing it's shadows into flavors that linger longer than the words uttered.
Author:
Mariel Faun
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In every unguarded exchange lies a spark of transformation, a moment where words dance liberally yet vanish into slips of time.
Author:
Elara Duvoss
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Within the tapestry of existence, it's often the rough seams of fallout that underscore poetry in motion.
Author:
Mae Stratos
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Beneath the infinite galaxy of moments, our shared experiences act as arcane conduitsinked across epochs, blending past dreams with future whims.
Author:
Eloise Ramirez
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In the linger of silence among weathered streets and familiar smiles, one finds the echo of handshakes unseen and hugs unheard, playing their absence like a painfully threaded symphony of affection.
Author:
Anwyn Reid
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Laid softly between breaths and silences, the forgotten gestures whisper the truths life swirls around - resilient ribbons in a mindset tightrope.
Author:
Sophia Chen
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Sometimes it is in the equation of missteps that we unwabhar sedimented prudence.
Author:
Clarissa Jouet
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Fleeting connections ambush the heart; in their brief, shakable grasp, they hunt for truths louder than permanence itself.
Author:
Silas Moreau
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In each brushstroke dances truth and illusion; the genius of cryptic artistry lies not in what it reveals, but in the mysteries begging to be deciphered.
Author:
Lydia Harrow
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The whispers of inspiration often hide between the strokes, inviting only the intrepid to dive beneath the surface of vibrant abstraction.
Author:
Zara Kingsley
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In the spaces between intentions and interpretations, cryptic artistry signifies the ache from within--nudging us to unearth the stories shrouded beneath enigmatic hues.
Author:
Elara aMontin
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Every gleam of existence is a soft tapestry, woven with light but fraying at the edges; in remembrance, freedom tragedies inhabit even quiet rushed truths.
Author:
Elara Finch
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Life is woven not in fabric with strong threads, but in whispers of the ephemeral; embrace them before they blend into memory.
Author:
Celeste Morrigan
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Fleeting moments are but gossamer threads in the tapestry of life, weaving sensations more vivid than permanence allows us to hold.
Author:
Mara Livenson
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In the hushed corridors of history, where voiceless echoes linger, silence wraps our understanding in a shroud of mystery, compelling us to listen to what was deemed unmentionable.
Author:
Clara Variotpune
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Imperfect speech carries the weight of intuition; it invokes clarity beyond words, where enthusiasm eclipses fluency.
Author:
Ella Rainhart
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Sometimes the wrong turn offers fleeting glimpses of the extraordinary; life's finest routes are often inked in spontaneity.
Author:
Elara Calvus
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Within the maze of chaos, chance kisses manifest destinies we've yet to dream; sometimes it takes an error in the map to lead to the treasure of belief.
Author:
Aurora Temple
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Every fleeting encounter we browse heightens our sense of self, transforming through dialogues both trivial and profound - drink deeply from the cup of now.
Author:
Elara Bethan
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True traditions are like spontaneous brushstrokes on the canvas of culture, more powerful and vivid because they sprang from an impulse rather than obligation.
Author:
Clara Lima
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In the microscopic whirl of daily life lie sloppy paint strokes yet magnificent handiwork--purely vivid tales yearning for discovery in their very tinniest points.
Author:
Emilia Hayes
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Everyday moments are the secret designers of our souls, weaving chance into intention, chaos into serendipity.
Author:
Ava Sterling
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In the stillness of reclaimed silence, one disentangles the symphony of the soul's musings; it demands merely the presence of being rather than the distractions of the noise.
Author:
Elara Costain
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When you are authentic, you establish meaning.
Author:
Mother Monster - Lady Gaga
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Our search for perpetual novelty distracts us from appreciating the sacred beauty of timelessness in creation.
Author:
Iris Randall
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In the dance of existence, there's a melody we seldom apprehend; within every moment awaits a transformation, begging us to unravel its possibilities anew.
Author:
Mira Alejandro
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Silence breathes space for thought, layering resilience in unsaid words with quiet compassion.
Author:
Eliana Ward
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To live a good life is to gastronomically savor both privilege and penance, adding spices of imagination to the appetizers of simplicity.
Author:
Mia Carter
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Within forgotten markets lies a symphony of stories, where echoes of the past fuse with the whispers of new madrid91 unheard dreams.
Author:
Lina Mezzo
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To live a good life, savor the enormity of small joys, for they stitch the masterpiece of our days.
Author:
Clara Tembo
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To live a good life is to braid contentment with purpose, allowing joy to grow even in difficult moments.
Author:
Astor Camin
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Through the dance of brush and canvas, art ignites the kindling sparks in our soul, urging us to dream a hue rare and bold.
Author:
Sienna March
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Success is not defined by money or titles, but by the impact you make on others.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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A life lived with passion is a life truly lived.
Author:
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Success is not defined by material possessions, but by the impact we make on others.
Author:
Samantha Williams
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The most meaningful moments often arise from unexpected connections.
Author:
Maya Patel
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A life lived with purpose is worth more than a hundred lived without direction.
Author:
Sophia Chen
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Our purpose in life is to find our own unique way to make a difference in the world.
Author:
Samantha Davis
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Success is not about money or power, but the impact you have on others.
Author:
Jessica Miller
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Success is not measured by the level of fame or wealth you attain, but by the impact you make on the world around you.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by your possessions, but by the impact you leave on the world.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by your possessions, but by the depth of your relationships.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by wealth or status, but by the depth of one's impact on the world.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your impact on the world.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by the accolades you receive, but by the integrity with which you achieve them.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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Success is not about acquiring wealth or power, but about finding true fulfillment in every moment of life.
Author:
Angela Davis
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Success is not determined by the number of followers around you, but by the depth of connection within.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not always measured by the size of your wallet, but by the depth of your relationships.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by the number of achievements, but by the impact you have on others.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your connections and the impact you make on others.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by the trophies on your shelf, but by the impact you leave on the hearts of others.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by the number of followers you have, but by the impact you make on those who truly matter.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not defined by the number of achievements, but by the impact we make on others.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Author:
Philip Wylie
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"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
Author:
Francis Wright
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Author:
Robin Williams
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The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
Author:
Charles Williams
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Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
Author:
Benjamin Whorf
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Author:
Mae West
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
Author:
H. Wells
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There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Author:
Peter Weir
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This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
Author:
Allen Weinstein
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I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Author:
Andy Warhol
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It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
Author:
Leon Uris
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.
Author:
Bill Toomey
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My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.
Author:
Charlene Tilton
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Author:
Paul Tillich
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'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
Author:
J. Thompson
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Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Author:
Toru Takemitsu
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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.
Author:
Stanley Spencer
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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Author:
Socrates
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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
Author:
William Smith
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In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
Author:
Kate Smith
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
Author:
Kate Smith
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It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
Author:
Elliott Smith
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The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
Author:
Ruth Simmons
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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
Author:
Clifford Simak
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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.
Author:
Sarah Silverman
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Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Author:
Michael Shermer
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Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Author:
Sidney Sheldon
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He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Author:
George Shaw
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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Author:
George Shaw
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Author:
Dr. Seuss
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A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
Author:
Erwin Schrodinger
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The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification.
Author:
Moritz Schlick
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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
Author:
Bob Schieffer
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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.
Author:
Erno Rubik
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And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.
Author:
Josiah Royce
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This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
Author:
Mark Rothko
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The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
Author:
Ned Rorem
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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Author:
Andy Rooney
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
Author:
Nelson Rockefeller
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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Author:
Jane Roberts
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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Author:
Tony Robbins
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Author:
Tony Robbins
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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Author:
Tony Robbins
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Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
Author:
Paul Ricoeur
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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
Author:
Paul Ricoeur
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I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.
Author:
Adam Rich
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The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
Author:
Anne Rice
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These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.
Author:
Godfrey Reggio
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I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Author:
Robert Redford
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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.
Author:
Herbert Read
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
Author:
Otto Rank
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What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
Author:
Karl Rahner
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Author:
Willard Quine
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Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
Author:
Philip Pullman
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Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
Author:
Natalie Portman
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The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
Author:
Michael Pollan
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
Author:
Plato
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Author:
Plato
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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Author:
Walter Pater
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In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
Author:
Boris Pasternak
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.
Author:
Evan Parker
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Author:
Paracelsus
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
Author:
George Orwell
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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Author:
Aristotle Onassis
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I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
Author:
Kim Novak
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Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Author:
Henri Nouwen
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Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
Author:
Gale Norton
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
Author:
Peggy Noonan
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Author:
Anais Nin
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Author:
Anais Nin
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Author:
Huey Newton
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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
Author:
Robert Musil
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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
Author:
Gilbert Murray
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.
Author:
Giorgio Moroder
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A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
Author:
Thurston Moore
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I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.
Author:
Kel Mitchell
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Religion reveals itself in struggling to reveal the meaning of the world.
Author:
S. Miller
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Author:
John Mill
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Man lives in a world of meaning.
Author:
George Mead
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American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
Author:
Bruce McCulloch
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Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
Author:
James McBride
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For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.
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Thom Mayne
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We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
Author:
Thom Mayne
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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W. Maugham
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Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
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Henri Matisse
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And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one.
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Kurt Masur
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Karl Marx
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In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
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Alfred Marshall
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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
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Katherine Mansfield
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Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
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Michael Mann
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Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
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Aimee Mann
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
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Naguib Mahfouz
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
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Rene Magritte
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Amidst the randomness of the universe, synchronicity graces those who dare to connect beyond coincidence.
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Marianne Tyus
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Every unexpected meeting holds breadcrumbs; when we pause to trace them, beautiful patterns of meaning reveal that life constantly composes itself into a symphony of serendipity.
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Sylvie Marceau
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The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.
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Humphrey Lyttelton
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I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
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Thomas Lynch
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Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
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Cesare Lombroso
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During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
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Sol LeWitt
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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C. Lewis
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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C. Lewis
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A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.
Author:
Shane Leslie
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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David Lehman
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The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
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Tim Lee
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The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
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Ang Lee
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
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Ray Kurzweil
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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Stanley Kubrick
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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Joseph Krutch
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Barbara Kruger
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You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.
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Alexander Kluge
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Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
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Paul Klee
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Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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Jack Kingston
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Florence King
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Jack Kevorkian
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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
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George Kennan
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Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.
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Harvey Keitel
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Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
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What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
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Donald Kagan
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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Carl Jung
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Ben Jonson
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From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.
Author:
Eyvind Johnson
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In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
Author:
Gwen John
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My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
Author:
Elfriede Jelinek
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The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Author:
Roman Jakobson
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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
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Roman Jakobson
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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Victoria Jackson
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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Mahalia Jackson
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Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
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Charles Ives
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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Muhammad Iqbal
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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
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Thomas Huxley
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When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
Author:
William Hunt
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Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
Author:
Jean Houston
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Author:
A. Housman
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The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
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John Hooker
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But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Author:
Ernest Holmes
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In the stillness of echoless spaces, echoes unveil the mind's hidden recesses, allowing us to wrestle with silence until meaning unveils itself slowly, piece by deliberate piece.
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Therin Milton
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I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.
Author:
Jim Hodges
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
Author:
David Hockney
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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
Author:
David Hockney
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In those echoless caverns of thought, we encounter the pure conversations hidden beneath the clamor of our lips.
Author:
Lysandra Kaimen
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
Author:
Utada Hikaru
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I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.
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Thor Heyerdahl
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
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Hermann Hesse
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Author:
Hermann Hesse
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And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.
Author:
Frederick Hedge
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The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.
Author:
Roy Haynes
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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
Author:
Randy Harrison
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I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
Author:
Randy Harrison
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Author:
Herbie Hancock
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Dag Hammarskjold
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I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
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Pete Hamill
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The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.
Author:
Conrad Hall
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Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
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Alex Halen
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I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
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David Hackworth
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I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
Author:
Luis Gutierrez
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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Walter Gropius
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
Author:
Pam Grier
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We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.
Author:
Christine Gregoire
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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
Author:
Graham Greene
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Author:
Graham Greene
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Author:
Graham Greene
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But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.
Author:
Richard Grasso
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You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
Author:
Maxim Gorky
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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Author:
Herbert Gold
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Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.
Author:
Crispin Glover
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Author:
Eric Gill
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The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
Author:
James Gibson
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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
Author:
James Gibson
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Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
Author:
Gordon Getty
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If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
Author:
Richard Gere
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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
Author:
Uri Geller
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Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
Author:
Clifford Geertz
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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Author:
Helen Garner
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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.
Author:
Liam Gallagher
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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
Author:
John Galbraith
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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
Author:
Bill Frist
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It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
Author:
Jonathan Franzen
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The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
Author:
Lucinda Franks
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
