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• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

  Tariq Ali

  Fighting, Justice, Democracy

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.3, Verso

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• So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Jesus, Eye

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• No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

  Dan Thompson

  Technique, Use, Want

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• I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

  Al Seckel

  Impact, Counter Culture, Movement

  "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.

  Benjamin L. Corey

  Peace, Biblical, Thinking

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• It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Skills, Yield

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

  Ansel Adams

  Feelings, Growing, Coincidence

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• Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.

  Dan Quayle

  Agriculture, Years, Levels

  "Republican rivals focus on farm crisis" by David Yepsen, www.cnn.com. August 12, 1999.

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• Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

  Martin Seligman

  Good Life, Life Is, Pleasant

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

  T. S. Eliot

  Running, Destiny, Men

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• The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.

  Alain de Botton

  Real, Issues, Baking

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

  Dalai Lama

  Water, Dying, Ephemeral

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• We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

  St. Jerome

  Needs, Passionate, Honest

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• I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Painting, Made, Symbols

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• I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life.

  Arnold Palmer

  Years, Forests, Realizing

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• Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and more young people are rebelling against the materialistic 'me' generation and are keen to find meaningful work during their stay.

  Susan Harris

  People, Generations, Materialistic

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• I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.

  RuPaul

  Children, Fighting, Color

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

  Jeff Mangum

  Silly, Music Is

  "Song: "Oh Comely" ("In the Aeroplane Over the Sea")". February 10, 1998.

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• As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

  Adam Braun

  Thinking, Two, Political

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• Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

  Adam Fletcher

  School, Commitment, Community

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• For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge.

  Roma Downey

  Inspirational, Challenges

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• It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.

  Eric Maisel

  Change, Jobs, Believe

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

  Joel Miller

  People, Risk, Liberty

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• When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.

  Norman Mailer

  Believe, Wind, Hurricanes

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.520, Harvard University Press

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• I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

  Yann Martel

  Believe, Order, Giving

  Marilyn Herbert, Yann Martel (2005). “Life of Pi”, p.62, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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