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This suntan lotion acts as an accelerator and an extender, meaning that this fire will burn brighter and longer. — Joe Teti
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself… — Karl Jaspers
Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about.… — Rajneesh
It is up to you to give life a meaning. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope… — Paulo Coelho
We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance… — Paulo Coelho
She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering,… — Paulo Coelho
Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are… — Paulo Coelho
Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering. — Paulo Coelho
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded… — Stanley Kubrick
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world. — Christopher Fry
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or… — Paul Claudel
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this… — Pablo Picasso
Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical. — Georges Braque
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. — Jeffery Deaver
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision. — Giorgio Agamben
As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important… — Daniel H. Pink
The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords. — James J. Gibson
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. — Jacques Audiard
Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the… — Bruce R. McConkie
I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people. — Vladimir Putin
Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand… — Pope Benedict XVI
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. — Dean Ornish
A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it. — Hilary Mantel
But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a… — Huey Newton

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