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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. — Eric Maisel
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one… — George Soros
Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special… — Michael Josephson
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange. — Gregory Crewdson
There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can… — Stephen Shore
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. — Andrea Dworkin
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be… — Nelson Rockefeller
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. — Rick Warren
You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose.… — Rick Warren
We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives. — Rick Warren
Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the… — N. T. Wright
My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I suggest that we… — N. T. Wright
Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy… — Eugene H. Peterson
But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two… — Dana Rohrabacher
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art. — Eleanora Duse
People are bringing SHOTGUNS to UFO sightings...brings a whole new meaning to that phrase 'You ain't from around here, ar'ya?' — Bill Hicks
The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe. — John Archibald Wheeler
Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings,… — Werner Heisenberg
All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're… — John Ashcroft
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said… — Jack Kerouac
People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own… — Unknown Author
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to… — Michael Shermer
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning. — Kenneth Burke
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up… — Vine Deloria, Jr.

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