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• While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

  David Simon

  Thinking, Way, Doe

  "'The Wire' writer David Simon among MacArthur genius grant winners" by Dan Zak, www.washingtonpost.com. September 28, 2010.

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• When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

  Elena Kagan

  Air, Issues, Farce

  "Panel on Obama's Nomination of Elena Kagan to Replace Justice Stevens on Supreme Court". "Special Report With Bret Baier", www.foxnews.com. May 10, 2010.

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• I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20′s and 30′s... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

  Marc Edwards

  Mind, Band, Pay

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• I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.

  Niki Taylor

  Likes, Busy, Projects

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• I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

  Dan Deacon

  Writing, Records, Want

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• There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way.

  Charlie Dent

  Way, Economy, Clear

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• Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

  James J. Gibson

  Shapes

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• Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Relationship, Most Meaningful, Meaningful Relationship

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• There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

  Jim Nussle

  Thinking, People, Lines

  The Arena Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com.

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• Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

  Robert Indiana

  People, Tree, Painting

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• Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

  Robert Benton

  Years, Play, Korea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

  Emmy Rossum

  Jobs, Taken, Actresses

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• A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

  Drew Barrymore

  Imperfection, Pages, Messages

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• You don't need to go all deep and meaningful and start talking about Daddies. It's yes or no answer.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Talking, Daddy

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• The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Long, Creative

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• It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

  Donald Miller

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Views

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.26, Penguin

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• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  Ann Druyan

  Children, Believe, Taken

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• Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Lasting Happiness, Joy

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• The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Real, Years, Two

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• My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Freedom, Self, Limits

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Men, Astrology

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• Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

  Carl Jung

  Crazy, Life Is, Life Is Crazy

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.31, Princeton University Press

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• Engagement is shaped by the interpretation of its intentions. In order for social media to mutually benefit you and your customers, you must engage them in meaningful and advantageous conversations, empowering them as true participants in your marketing and service efforts.

  Brian Solis

  Media, Order, Empowering

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• The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred.

  Martin Seligman

  Good Life, Signatures, Doe

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.224, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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