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• Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

  Becky Stark

  Sadness, Serious, Comedy

  "Lavender Diamond Seeks World Peace". Interview with Jake Coyle, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Freedom Of Speech, World

  Ai Weiwei @aiww, twitter.com. December 23, 2011.

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• The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Addresses, Monopoly, Theory

  Phillip E. Johnson (2000). “Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture”, Intervarsity Press

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• The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

  Michael Chertoff

  Giving, Risk, Use

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• The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

  Paul Saffo

  Goal, Needs, Action

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• If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

  John Cornyn

  Government, Obamacare, People

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• We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Needs, Republic, Citizenship

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Compassion, Technology

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• When in Italy, you should meet Italians.

  Isa Miranda

  Should

  "Fictional character: Signora Fiorini". "Summertime", www.imdb.com. 1955.

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• Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part.

  Robert Ryan

  Differences, Way To Live, Dies

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• Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.

  George Sanders

  Lost

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• Take part. Contribute. Be interested in everything and everybody.

  Claude Rains

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• What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

  Melvyn Douglas

  Thinking, Moments

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• For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

  Lionel Barrymore

  Firsts, Life Is, Wonderful

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• Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

  David Riesman

  Play, Meaningful Work, Excluded

  "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, p. 333, 1954.

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• The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.

  William O. Douglas

  Sleep, Journey, Men

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• As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Freedom, Real, Writing

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin

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• If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

  John Templeton

  Adversity, Blessing, People

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• Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.

  Terry Winograd

  Understanding, Progress, Asking

  Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores (1986). “Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design”, p.13, Intellect Books

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• There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  Law, Justice, Given

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• If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

  Tom Brady

  Want, Ifs

  "A Q&A with Tom Brady". Interview with Jimmy Tarina, www.si.com. June 21, 2012.

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• I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.

  James Garner

  Letting Go, Country, Home

  "Fictional character: Lt. Commander Charles Edward Madison". "The Americanization of Emily", 1964.

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• Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  Mark Twight

  Success, Hard Work, Persistence

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• A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

  Sandy Fussell

  Girl, Hug, Samurai

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• My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it,'

  Scott Kim

  Player, Goal, Designer

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