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• Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."

  Herbert Hoover

  Hands, Economist, Please

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• When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jobs, Commitment, Intellectual

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• Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.

  Ivan Illich

  Meaningful, Men, Circles

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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• When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.

  Steve Coogan

  Needs, Reassurance, Intimate

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• I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

  Petrarch

  Writing, Desire, Praying

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• Jewellery's not a big thing for me. The only thing I wear is a gold cross on a chain that I got for my 21st birthday. You have to take it off every day for filming, but that's the only time I'm not wearing it. You won't find me in rings, bracelets or earrings.

  Jonas Armstrong

  21st Birthday, Gold, Chains

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• My work to me is more like what the Native Americans say: When we walk upon the earth, we always place our feet very carefully upon the ground, because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from below, and we never forget them. I think as a culture today we've forgotten them. This work is a way to help us remember them. It's a way for us not only to find meaning in our individual lives, but to extend that approach all across the planet. Because if we don't, we won't have a planet.

  Wayne Dyer

  Native American, Thinking, Culture

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• Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

  Franny Billingsley

  Want, Dots, Meaning Life

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.217, Penguin

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• I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.

  Sarra Manning

  Lost, Wanted Someone, Wanted

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• The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Fire, Campaigns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.360, Library of America

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• Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

  Thomas Browne

  Bees, Three, Vagabonds

  Sir Thomas Browne (1968). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence”

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• Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

  Patti Smith

  Ifs

  Song: Rock 'N' Roll Nigger

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• I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.

  Brian Andreas

  Games, Play, Would Be

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• An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

  Carl Sandburg

  Song, Heart, Ambition

  Carl Sandburg (1998). “Rootabaga Stories”, p.111, Applewood Books

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• I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

  Noma Bar

  Opposites, Icons, Sketching

  Interview with Drew Dernavich, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2008.

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• My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.

  Clayton Snyder

  Fun, School, Voice

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.

  Dacia Maraini

  Drinking, Coffee, Writing

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Years, Lasts

  Interview, www.goodreads.com. April, 2008.

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• But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.

  Anna Friel

  Bizarre, Carbs, Ask Me

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

  Angel Olsen

  Brain, Different, Might

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• Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. Meaning has not to be discovered; it has to be created. You will find meaning only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Lying, Opportunity

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• We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying... I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

  Julian Assange

  Crush, Meaningful, People

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards'". Interview to Spiegel, www.commondreams.org. July 26, 2010.

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• I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Men, Adults

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.

  Karen Armstrong

  Children, Grief, Want

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

  Michael Polanyi

  Meaningful, People, Principles

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.182, University of Chicago Press

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