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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger… — Karen Armstrong
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more… — Margaret Atwood
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what… — Saint Augustine
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he… — Sai Baba
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any… — Robert Baden-Powell
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the… — Ansel Adams
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the… — Ansel Adams
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order… — Toni Cade Bambara
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. — Dennis Banks
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people. — Syd Barrett
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the… — Georges Bataille
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. — Mary Catherine Bateson
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. — Alfred Adler
For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison. — Kathryn Bigelow
It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people,… — Bhumibol Adulyadej

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