Quotes about Meaning

Journalist, Social Activist

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

Meaning - Pleasure

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Joseph Stalin

Former Premier of the Soviet Union

Of course, in order to build something new, one has to economize, accumulate means, temporarily limit one's requirements, borrow from others. If you want to build a new house, you save money temporarily and limit your requirements, otherwise you might not build your house.

Meaning - Wants

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Benito Mussolini

Former Prime Minister of Italy

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

Actions - Countries - Economy - Education - Fascism - Feelings - Meaning - Politics - State

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Jane Austen

Writer, Novelist

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Danger - Essence - Meaning - Wellness

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Honore de Balzac

Artist, Novelist, Novelist

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

End - Judging - Law - Man - Meaning - Tasks

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

End - Grace - Meaning - Romance - State - Teaching - Thinking

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Clifford Geertz

Anthropologist

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

Book - Feminism - Meaning - Writing

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Virginia Woolf

Writer

For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

Communicate - Curiosity - Endurance - Human - Imperfection - Meaning

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Kindness - Meaning - Oneself

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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Giving - Living - Meaning

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Lewis Carroll

Writer

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.

Mastering - Mathematics - Meaning

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Rajneesh

Guru

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Creativity - Dance - Enough - Innovation - Life - Meaning - Wants

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Rajneesh

Guru

To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!

Allowance - Children - Imitation - Meaning

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Robert Kiyosaki

Writer, Author, Investor

Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

Father - Meaning - Rich - Teaching

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.

Guarantee - Meaning - Nations - Worth

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Calling - Meaning - Soul

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

Choice - Compassion - Cooperation - Goals - Human - Meaning - Pursuit - Wonder - World

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

Man - Meaning - Praise

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.

Meaning - Obscurity - Student

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

As the means, so the end.

End - Meaning

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