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• To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

  Mos Def

  Jobs, Artist, Intelligent

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• Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Light, Interesting, Facts

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• You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Jobs, Sorrow

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• The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

  James Lovelock

  Inertia, Humans, Huge

  Interview with The Guardian, March 29, 2010.

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• Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.

  Richard Florida

  Emotional, Long, People

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• A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

  Bill Crawford

  Skills, Want, Life Is

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• Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Creating, Our Future

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• I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

  Dorothy Allison

  Pain, Opening Up, Creating

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• Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

  Tommy Tune

  Stars, Media, Years

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• Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

  Rollo May

  Memories, Past, Hopes And Fears

  "Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p. 220), 1953.

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• Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men-both of them Daryl Farmer-this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.

  Bret Lott

  Moving, Book, Journey

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• Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Understanding, World, Architecture

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• C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.

  Erik Naggum

  Memories, Writing, Support

  Re: Allegro CL foreign function interface (Usenet article), groups.google.com. June 14, 2000.

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• Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

  Dhani Jones

  Believe, Manhattan, May

  "Creating a Culture of Conversation" by Dhani Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

  John Cage

  Music, Organization, Piano

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.

  Teresa Amabile

  Leadership, Motivation, Perception

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• I don't find a lot of people actually saying things through music any longer. They are not trying to say anything with their music, they just want to make money with it. I think it's important to actually say something real, something meaningful, rather than just write some trash and try to sell it.

  Robben Ford

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers. I felt a dormlike camaraderie in the burn unit, since each of us knew the challenges we were facing like no one else could, and therefore how meaningful each triumph was.

  Stephanie Nielson

  Encouragement, Jobs, Cheer

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• Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

  Alan Cohen

  Teaching, Focus, Highest

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• Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Essence, Choices, Secret

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• Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them.Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness.And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Dream, Falling In Love, Loneliness

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• The basis of the spiritual path is the development in ourselves of what is truly balanced, natural, and meaningful.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Spiritual, Path, Development

  Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub

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• When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Moving, Inspiration, Writing

  Mary Engelbreit, Patrick Regan (2006). “Artful Words: Mary Engelbreit and the Illustrated Quote”, p.53, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Two, Splits, Conservative

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• And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

  Nia Vardalos

  Motherhood, Done, Meaningful Things

  "The List" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.

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