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• Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

  Alan Watts

  Example, Philosopher, Failing

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• Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

  Cornelius Van Til

  Men, Would Be, World

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• Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Book, Hero

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• in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

  Arthur Koestler

  Pertinent Questions, Society, Lasts

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• No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

  Michael Novak

  Children, Compassion, Progress

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• You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Needs, Shouting

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• It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.

  Frank Smith

  Children, Teaching, Tasks

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• The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

  Jimenez Lai

  World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The only way I can experience my life as meaningless is to work as hard as I possibly can to tell myself it has no meaning. At a deeper level of reality, my life can't help but have meaning, because everything is continually unfolding, and I am connected into that unfolding in ways that I can't even imagine.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Reality, Levels

  Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.11, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Action, Love Someone

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.

  T.C. Boyle

  Dog, Teeth, Why Not

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Meaningful, Fun, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps them simplify the apparent complexities of the world so they can ignore the meaningless differences and draw connections between the things that really seem to matter. Third, based on the classification system, they propose a theory. The theory is a statement of what causes what and why, and under what circumstances.

  Clayton Christensen

  Differences, Connections, World

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  Integrity, War, Government

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• When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Meaningful, Mother

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• I also made two very important discoveries as time went on. In the first place, I discovered that making money was easy. I had been led to believe that money and possessions would insure me a life of happiness and peace of mind. So that was the path I pursued. In the second place, I discovered that making money and spending it foolishly was completely meaningless. I knew that this was not what I was here for, but at that time I didn't know exactly what I was here for.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Money, Believe, Discovery

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.4, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Destiny, People, Giving

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.841, Best Books on

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• Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

  E. J. Hughes

  Drawing, Watches, Lines

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• Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.

  Valerie Steele

  Fashion, Clothes, World

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• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Fall, Men

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.

  Alan Keyes

  Rights, Choices, Independence

  "PBS' Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.keyesarchives.com. December 20, 1999.

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• Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.

  Alan Moore

  Apologizing

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• Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Fairness, Duty

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• Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

  Glen Duncan

  Time, Creation, Property

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Running, Time, Circles

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.99, Hachette UK

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