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History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization… — Olof Palme
The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will treat you with… — Rick Warren
My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to… — Gail Sheehy
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. — David Steindl-Rast
Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the… — Marianne Williamson
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any… — Potter Stewart
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made… — Mark Twain
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a… — Huey Newton
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the… — Terry Rossio
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is… — Viktor E. Frankl
There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people… — Stephen Levine
With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine… — John Henry Newman
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque… — Fulton J. Sheen
In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and… — Pope John Paul II
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to… — Aelred of Rievaulx
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. — Albert Einstein
Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow… — Lance Armstrong
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot… — Richard Branson
The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field… — Werner Heisenberg
We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention,… — Al Gore
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Dreams make you click, juice you, turn you on, excite the living daylights out of you. You cannot wait to get out of bed to… — James C. Collins
Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for… — Arthur Compton
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant… — Deepak Chopra
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. — Ray Kurzweil

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