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- Nov 07, 2020
Meaning Quotes
On the search for purpose, and the peace of not always finding one.
One quote describes falling through space where time itself loses meaning, while another ties real meaning only to work born of inner compulsion rather than obligation. See more in our Life quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
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- Nov 07, 2020
High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
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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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.
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- Nov 07, 2020