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• For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Order, World, Social

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.

  Matthew Hussey

  Animal, Desire, Needs

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as a matter of fact, it has nothing to offer them. Suppose they do get a high school diploma that is meaningful. What kind of job is awaiting them. The jobs that used to be available to working class people are not there as a result of the de-industrialization of this economy.

  Angela Davis

  Brother, Jobs, Believe

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Reading, Writing, Order

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Art, Creativity, Men

  Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.

  Scott Cohen

  School, Adorable, Littles

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• I get the most gratification in life by feeling like I'm doing something purposeful and meaningful and makes a difference to other people, and that comes with its pros and cons. I've accepted this is the kind of person that I am, and this is the path I've chosen in life - and I'm stickin' with it.

  Steve Grand

  Differences, People, Feelings

  "EXCLUSIVE! The Real Deal: An Interview With Kickstarter King Steve Grand". Boy Culture Interview, www.boyculture.com. February 28, 2014.

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• Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Skills, Roles

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Skills, Cooperative Learning

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Views, Broken, Different

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

  Philip K. Dick

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Eye in the Sky”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

  John Piper

  Christmas, Needs, Delight

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• Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

  Old Tom Morris

  Success, Powerful, Hard Work

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• The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

  Paul Johnson

  Today, Used, Meaningless

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• More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.

  John Fahey

  Real, Islands, Tv Shows

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• Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.

  Seth

  Evil, People, Sorrow

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• The gospel is unintelligible to most people today, especially in the West, because their own particular stories are remote from the story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation that is narrated in the Bible. Our focus is introspective and narrow, confided to our own immediate knowledge, experience, and intuition. Trying desperately to get others, including God, to make us happy, we cannot seem to catch a glimpse of the real story that gives us a meaningful role.

  Michael Horton

  Real, Fall, People

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• As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

  Jon Porter

  Parent, Able, Loved Ones

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• But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

  Alex Campbell

  Progress, Essentials, Ingredients

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• To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

  Eric Williams

  Opportunity, Differences, Giving

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• Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.

  Terry Jones

  Terrorism, Mockery

  Terry Jones (2009). “Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python”, p.2, Nation Books

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• I hope you find what you're looking for.

  Steve McQueen

  Gnome, Interesting Times

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• For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

  Paul Goodman

  Baby, Sound, Towers

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• I am inclined to believe that if there can be a meaningful human right to any material thing, surely it starts with access to minimum clean freshwater.

  Steven Solomon

  Believe, Clean, Minimum

  "Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization". Book by Steven Solomon (p. 495), www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.

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• I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

  Alan Ball

  Jobs, Frustrated, Important

  "American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. October 08, 1999.

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