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Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. — Charles Alexander Eastman
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This… — Germaine Greer
The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you? - It protects my head. — Kimi Raikkonen
A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects… — Milan Kundera
The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring… — Rob Bell
It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning. — Gunter Grass
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum. — Leonhard Euler
From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry… — Leo Lionni
You'll realize the transformation is not for you alone. You'll learn that you're here to use this gift to shine light on the dark world… — Gabrielle Bernstein
After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you… — M. John Harrison
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning… — M. John Harrison
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in… — Eudora Welty
It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In… — Greg Gutfeld
I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the… — Frantz Fanon
I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I… — Jerry Fodor
Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. — Lesley Howarth
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For… — Brian Swimme
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the… — Nancy Spero
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and… — Sri Aurobindo
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person]… — Mary Daly
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.… — Murray Bookchin
Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies… — Raymond Radiguet

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