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• I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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• The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

  Tom Brokaw

  Daughter, Father, Years

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• Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

  Ralph Marston

  Letting Go, Creativity, Positive Thinking

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• Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Brain, Patterns, Abiding

  "Man On His Nature" by Charles Scott Sherrington, (p. 178), 1942.

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• Anyone who feels that they're in some way plugged into a meaningful, cosmic system is given a greater psychological balance as a result-whether or not they believe it contains a god-like figure at the control panels. Lots of people have this beneficial sense of being plugged into something bigger, even if they're not religious in the going-to-church-regularly sense.

  Robin Skynner

  Religious, Believe, People

  Robin Skynner, John Cleese (1984). “Families and how to survive them”, Vintage

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• People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.

  Ann Winterton

  Jobs, Hunting, Average

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• Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

  A. Powell Davies

  Inspirational, Life, Soul

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• What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.

  B.J. Penn

  Giving, Steps, Chance

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• We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

  Georges Danton

  Teaching, Learning, Risk

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• Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.

  David Zippel

  Inspirational, Winning, Believe In Yourself

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• I have a song deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very still ...It is so easy to listen to my song. When my eyes are open and I am so Busy and moving and busy, If I take time and listen very hard, I can still hear my Heartsong. It makes me feel happy. Happier than ever. Happier than everywhere And everything and everyone In the whole wide world. Happy like thinking about Going to Heaven when I die. My Heartsong sounds like this: I love you! I love you! How happy you can be! How happy you can make this whole World be.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Song, Moving, Love You

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• Did you know? Did the cross cast a shadow on your cradle? Did you shudder each time your hammer struck a nail? How much heaven and how much earth were in this baby at his birth? Did you know, or did you wonder?

  Todd Agnew

  Christmas, Baby, Heaven

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• Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

  Donald Justice

  Funny, Men, Doors

  "Men at Forty" l. 1 (1967)

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• As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Philosophy, Destiny, Medicine

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• Relationships can't blossom unless there is meaningful communication. That's why 'supplication is the key to worship.' It is a sign of meaningful communication between God and a person.

  Suhaib Webb

  Couple, Communication, Keys

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• We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

  Tim Cook

  Believe, Discipline, Focus

  "Apple's Tim Cook: We're Fine Without Steve Jobs (AAPL)" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2009.

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• Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know.

  John Tukey

  Data, Evil, Needs

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• Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Lying, Events, Coincidence

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• Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.

  Helen Keller

  Spiritual, Strong, Heart

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• Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Education, Children, Reading

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• The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Reality, People

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• Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

  Thomas Anthony Dooley III

  Sacrifice, Dedication, Effort

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• I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done.

  Mamie Till

  Heart, Purpose, Done

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• A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Friendship, Years

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “Letters”

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• It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.

  Keith Preston

  Political, Democracy, Minorities

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