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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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• It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

  Virgil Goode

  Hype, Voting, Requirements

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• I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

  Dante Alighieri

  Thinking, Journey, Long

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• An introvert may feel asocial when pressured to go to a party that doesn't interest her. But for her, the event does not promise meaningful interaction. In fact, she knows that the party will leave her feeling more alone and alienated.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Party, Feelings, Promise

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.27, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• 'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.

  Geoff Shepherd

  Inspirational, Heart, Recovery

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• Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book whats really at stake, but ultimately its not about them - its always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

  Andrew Gross

  Book, Issues, People

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• Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

  Yuan T. Lee

  Improvement, Predictions, Quantum

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• I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living - to personally devote oneself to meaningful efforts to improve the human condition. More importantly, today's needs are so great and varied that intelligent philanthropic support and positive interventions can have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed when the needs are greater.

  Chuck Feeney

  Intelligent, Thinking, Impact

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• And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

  A.C. Grayling

  People, Meaning Of Life, Different

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• So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Special

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• Be pleased to look forward,
  And pleased to look behind,
  Count today, your 40th, and each birthday
  With a grateful mind.

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Grateful

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• As it's your 40th birthday
  This, we'd like to say
  May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
  On this, your special day.

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Special

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• Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th
  No need to have wisdom and sage
  But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade
  Do try to act more your age

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Wind

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• To move freely you must be deeply rooted.

  Bella Lewitzky

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

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• Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.

  Beth Kephart

  Friendship, Children, House

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• The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Prayer

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• The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

  Peter Brook

  Theatre, Rehearsal

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• The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

  Paul Sweezy

  Confidence, Integrity, Real

  "The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas". Book by Robert W. McChesney, May 1, 2008.

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• Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

  Don Rittner

  Digital, Internet, Made

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• If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

  Brené Brown

  Spiritual, Empathy, Purpose

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream

  Helen Keller

  Dream, Eye, Kissing

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• The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.

  Al Gore

  Keys, Speaks Out, Citizens

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• Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Grateful, Joy

  "Is Gratitude the Path to a Better World?". Interview with Jill Suttie, greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 29, 2013.

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