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• The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Stress, Taken, Light

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• If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

  Rob Morrow

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

  Bergen Evans

  Wisdom, Given, Selection

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• You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Loss

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• The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

  Leonard Baskin

  Education, Art, Believe

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• The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; an life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Rivers, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 325, 1895.

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• We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.

  PZ Myers

  Atheist, Lying, Successful

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• If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

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• You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Men's Health Magazine, October 2017.

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• Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

  Margaret Cho

  Regret, Congratulations, Sleep

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• The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

  Geshe Gyeltsen

  Determination, Buddhist, Attitude

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• Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.

  Jean Piaget

  Science, Intelligent, Discovery

  Jean Piaget (2013). “Origin of Intelligence in the Child: Selected Works”, p.303, Routledge

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• Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

  Dan Morgenstern

  Hope, Suffering, Despair

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• Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fake People, Names, Fans

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• Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")

  Marianne Williamson

  Lying, Mean, Addiction

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

  Gerald Early

  Taken, Winning, Style

  Gerald Lyn Early (1994). “The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture”

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• A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Matter, Emptiness, Empty

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• I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.

  J. Robbins

  Might, Kind, Miles

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

  Henry Jenkins

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  "If You Saw My Talk at South By Southwest..." by Henry Jenkins, henryjenkins.org. March 10, 2008.

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• All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Truth, Real, Ideas

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• The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Giving, Mind, Religion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

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• A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Anxiety, Abuse

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless. It demonstrates the endless multiplicity of aspects; it takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows us the thing in all the manifold significance and infinite variety that preclude the emergence of any single meaning and view.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Views, Names

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• I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Believe, Destiny

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

  Henry Hyde

  Hate, Liberty, Speech

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