Meaningful Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Player, Games

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.124, Arcade Publishing

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• I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

  David Petersen

  Essentials, Hunters, Ancient

  David Petersen (2014). “Racks: A Natural History of Antlers and the Animals That Wear Them”, p.114, Booktango

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• I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

  Joan Cusack

  Fun, Thinking, Feels

  "The Cast of Ice Princess speak!". movieweb.com. March 16, 2005.

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• I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

  David Suchet

  Appreciation, Views, People

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

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• I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

  Bill Nighy

  Real, Thinking, Used

  "Watching the Golden Globes". www.slate.com. January 16, 2007.

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• Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives.

  Peter Friedman

  Two, Thought Provoking, Marketing

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• In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

  Paul Allen

  People, Horizon, Way

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• Mindfulness is not just a word or a
  discourse by the Buddha, but a
  meaningful state of mind. It means
  we have to be here now, in this very
  moment, and we have to know what
  is happening internally and
  externally. It means being alert to
  our motives and learning to change
  unwholesome thoughts and
  emotions into wholesome ones
  Mindfulness is a mental activity that
  in due course eliminates all
  suffering.

  Ayya Khema

  Mind, Suffering, Emotion

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• Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social dimension is fundamentally a mistake. Until Western Buddhists understand this, their embrace of Buddhism will not help very much in the efforts to bring about meaningful and positive social change, or even in their struggle to transform their ego.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Buddhist, Mistake, Struggle

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• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  Angela Davis

  Girl, Baby, Jobs

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.26, Vintage

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• Does life have any meaningful purpose?

  Tom DeLay

  Doe, Purpose

  "DeLay Criticized for 'Only Christianity' Remarks". Tom DeLay's speech at the First Baptist Church of Pearland, Texas, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2002.

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• What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

  Ed Mayo

  Future, Vision, Cooperation

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• The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.

  Peter Gabriel

  Hands, Rights, Expectations

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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

  Confucius

  Funny, Birthday, Heart

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• I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Birthday, Years

  "‘Orange Is the New Black’ ... Geek Is the New Chic... 60 Is the New?" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

  Evan S. Connell

  Funny, Birthday, Waiting

  EVAN S. CONNELL, JR. (1959). “MRS. BRIDGE”

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• Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Birthday, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

  Rene Russo

  Funny, Birthday, Beautiful

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• My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

  Ian Fleming

  Funny, Birthday, Hands

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• Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

  David Antin

  Children, Sight, Singing

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• What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

  Abraham Maslow

  Brother, Children, Pain

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