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• You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Real, Decision, Important

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• Energy is our most precious resource, for it is the means by which we transform our creative potential into meaningful action.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Creative, Energy, Action

  Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Skillful means”, Dharma Publishing

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• There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Glasses, Ice Cream

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.108, Columbia University Press

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• Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.

  Kweisi Mfume

  Generations, Lessons, Way

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• Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

  Gerald Brommer

  Substance

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• I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried to embrace the nothingness, but it slipped through my grasp, and now there is nothing where the nothingness was. This may sound meaningful, but it isn't.

  John S. Hall

  May, Sound, Limitless

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?

  Ellen Willis

  Ice Cream, People, May

  "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.

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• Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Good Life, Views, Choices

  "Is it compassionate to prohibit suicide?". The Baltimore Sun, March 17, 2009.

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• Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities.

  John Carroll

  Cutting, Economic Models, Discipline

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• Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Space, Independence, Events

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

  Dalai Lama

  Water, Dying, Ephemeral

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• Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.

  Jane Espenson

  Real, Opposites, Layers

  "Caprica Producer Jane Espenson Redefines Racism in the BSG Universe". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.

  Victor Papanek

  Order, Design, Effort

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• As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production - year after year after year - some of that needs to be reinvested in society.

  Edward Snowden

  Jobs, Social Unrest, Years

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

  Aristotle

  Goal, Life Is, Strive

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• There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

  Rollo May

  Individual, Said

  "Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence". Book by Rollo May, ch. 11: The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972.

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• One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.

  Bill Crawford

  Creating, Keys, Long

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• It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Age

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• The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types of private property and free contracting disappear from the moral horizon of the people.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  People, Foundation, Horizon

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.141, Routledge

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Atheist, Hands

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• I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.

  Jan Hunt

  Hurt, Children, Compassion

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.4, New Society Publishers

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• Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing and where you are going. Big almost impossible, highly meaningful goal + respectful & supportive team is the winning combination of fear & love. Meaning is the biggest sources of energy that gets you up in the morning.

  Michael Rennie

  Morning, Team, Winning

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• Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

  Donna Farhi

  Attention, Care, Our Actions

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.

  Chris Guillebeau

  People, Feelings, World

  Chris Guillebeau (2010). “The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World”, p.125, Penguin

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