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• There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  War, Civilization, Differences

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• I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life.

  Arnold Palmer

  Years, Forests, Realizing

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• I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

  Yann Martel

  Believe, Order, Giving

  Marilyn Herbert, Yann Martel (2005). “Life of Pi”, p.62, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

  Ansel Adams

  Feelings, Growing, Coincidence

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• I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.

  RuPaul

  Children, Fighting, Color

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

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• Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

  Jeff Mangum

  Silly, Music Is

  "Song: "Oh Comely" ("In the Aeroplane Over the Sea")". February 10, 1998.

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• Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Lovely, Tears

  "David Hockney". Book by Marco Livingstone, 1976.

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• I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Painting, Made, Symbols

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• What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

  Tim Ferriss

  Answers, Want, Produce

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• So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Jesus, Eye

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• Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

  Adam Fletcher

  School, Commitment, Community

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• No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

  Dan Thompson

  Technique, Use, Want

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• For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge.

  Roma Downey

  Inspirational, Challenges

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• Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.

  Dan Quayle

  Agriculture, Years, Levels

  "Republican rivals focus on farm crisis" by David Yepsen, www.cnn.com. August 12, 1999.

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• Meaningful work is within your grasp.

  Dan Miller

  Meaningful Work

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• As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

  Adam Braun

  Thinking, Two, Political

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• Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.

  Robert Cheeke

  Block, Winning, Focus

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• What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

  Joel Miller

  People, Risk, Liberty

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• Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

  Henrietta Mears

  Philosophy, Educational, Goal

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• The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Lying, Mind, Trying

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

  Meher Baba

  Life, Reality, Endure

  Meher Baba, A. K. Hajra (1969). “Life is a Jest”

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• Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Strong, Evil, Broken

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• Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a testimonial to our love. But true love does not need grief to support its truth. Love can last in a healthy and meaningful way, once our grief is dispelled. We can honor our dead more by the quality of our continued living than by our constantly remembering the past.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grief, Grieving, Past

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• Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

  Martin Seligman

  Good Life, Life Is, Pleasant

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Mother, Children

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