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Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect. — Salman Rushdie
A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way. — Titus Burckhardt
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them… — Herbert Hoover
Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. — Zane Grey
I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it. — Rachel Roy
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;… — Strobe Talbott
You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers of selection and… — Anton Szandor LaVey
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A… — Dion Fortune
In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it.… — Victor Davis Hanson
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that… — Paulo Freire
Well-meaning, decent people will condemn the behavior of a Ted Bundy, while they're walking past a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things… — Ted Bundy
I don’t feel that this is unfair. That’s the thing about cancer. I’m not the only one, it happens all the time to people. I’m… — Terry Fox
My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning… — David Suzuki
A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts. — James Berardinelli
Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning. — Langdon Winner
The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the… — Jenny Saville
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or… — Unknown Author
The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money. — Guy Kawasaki
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. — Robert Smithson
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of… — William Robertson Smith
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I… — Stanley Spencer
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill… — Richard Florida
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated. — Evan Parker

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