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• Remember that being a success without happiness is meaningless.

  Richard Denny

  Happiness, Remember

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• We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not only have Adam and Eve and the flood story passed over to mythology, but we can no longer talk about a time of the patriarchs. There never was a "United Monarchy" in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings... The Bible deals with the origin traditions of a people who never existed as such

  Thomas L. Thompson

  Bible, Writing, Past

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• If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Meaningful, Work

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• Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.

  Philip Johnson

  Reality, Law, Scary

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• One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!

  Stephen Hawking

  Jobs, Past, Expanding Universe

  "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1988.

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• Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.

  George Orwell

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

  Emilio Estevez

  Really Mean, Crap, Our Lives

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• It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

  Tim Minchin

  Exciting, Meaningless Life, Exciting Things

  Tim Minchin 's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, People, House

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• There are no meaningless experiences.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.19, Anchor

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• Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

  Glenn Turner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically.

  Daryl Wein

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Winning, Games, Ifs

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.50, Baen Books

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• If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Light, Meaningless Things, Stronger

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Phones, Nsa

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

  Ann Coulter

  Dog, Mean, Differences

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it salvation is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.

  Woody Allen

  Agony, Oasis, Agonizing

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights, Civilization

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.102, Del Rey

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• Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

  Steve Tesich

  Sake, Cohesion, Comprehension

  Steve Tesich, E. L. Doctorow (2004). “Karoo”, p.325, Open City Books

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• You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Life And Death, Aliens

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Buddhism, Order, Heaven

  Interview with Steve Lafreniere, www.vice.com. December 02, 2008.

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• The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

  Paul Kurtz

  Leaving, Atheism, Deceit

  Paul Kurtz “Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz”, Transaction Publishers

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• The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout what might be; it offers meaning for us today. Christian hope is founded on certain faith that life is not a meaningless riddle, but a mystery progressively revealed and finding the fulfillment in the redemption won by Jesus Christ and offered to all peoples."

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Christian, Hope, Jesus

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• The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Views, Media

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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• Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Song, Stories, Life Is

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.65, Hachette UK

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