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• Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. — Alfred Adler
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• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others… — David Bohm
• When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois
• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach
• Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. — James Russell Lowell
• For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave… — Mary Caroline Richards
• For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with… — Edgar Cayce
• [Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means… — Clifford Geertz
• Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can… — Ralph Levy
• Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel… — Unknown Author

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