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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it.… — Carl Jung
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever… — Thurgood Marshall
When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path… — Caroline Myss
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation,… — David Simon
The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously… — Neale Donald Walsch
There is a profound difference between information and meaning. — Warren G. Bennis
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story
I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores"… — Alexis de Tocqueville
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of… — Anthony Kennedy
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the… — Roland Barthes
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the… — Lewis H. Lapham
The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it. — Janet Morris
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without… — Luigi Pirandello
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when… — Peggy Noonan
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed… — Donald Murray
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to… — Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain… — Thomas Jefferson
The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,… — James Madison
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in… — William J. Brennan
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the… — Alexander Hamilton
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers… — James Madison
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by… — James Madison
My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has… — Thomas Jefferson

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