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All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The… — Kazuo Ishiguro
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades. — Charles Dickens
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends… — Annie Leibovitz
Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our… — Robert Adams
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs). — J.R.R. Tolkien
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. — Stephen Shore
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. — Sanford Meisner
It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning — Elliott Smith
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from… — Abraham Maslow
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected. — Viktor E. Frankl
We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot… — Viktor E. Frankl
I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the… — Viktor E. Frankl
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge… — Viktor E. Frankl
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. — Viktor E. Frankl
Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering — Viktor E. Frankl
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. — Jacques Barzun
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says. — Jacques Derrida
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. — Homer
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and… — Pericles
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art. — Sol LeWitt
Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities? — Saddam Hussein
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. — Boris Pasternak
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by… — Leo Tolstoy
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in… — Guy Gavriel Kay

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