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• Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Liberty, Agree, Ifs

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• Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Coincidence, Modern, Form

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• People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

  Frances Hesselbein

  People, Achieve, Results

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons

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• The moment I realized God existed, I knew that I could not do othewise than to live for Him Alone...Faith strips the mask from the world and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger and fear, so the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy--like a child, hand and hand with his mother.

  Charles de Foucauld

  God, Faith, Mother

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• Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

  Michael Dirda

  Axes, Battle, Velvet

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• Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.

  Lauren Oliver

  Years, Lost, Worthless

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• Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Long, Looks, Tomorrow

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• Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

  Erlend Loe

  Animal, Together, World

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

  Ian Mcewan

  Waiting, Doing Nothing, Emotion

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• But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Hate, Giving, Stronger

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• Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

  Judith Guest

  Action, Life Is, Reason

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• Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Night, Sky

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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• What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

  Erlend Loe

  Men, Together, Months

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• Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

  Brent Weeks

  Empty Life, Killers, Bitter

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• Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Hair, Feelings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Justice, Desire

  "World Food Day and the Challenge to Solve World Hunger and Protect the Planet" by John Bryant, Dr. Jason Clay, Lisa Moon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

  Frederick Buechner

  Meaningful, Dream, Religious

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• Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

  Asger Jorn

  Beautiful, Differences, Long

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

  Matt de la Pena

  Self, Feelings, Excitement

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• Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity.

  Michael Catt

  Christianity, Crosses, Powerless

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• The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid.  Awareness atrophies.  Dumb gets dumber.  Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other.  We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experiences.  These lists are meaningless.

  Roger Cohen

  Stupid, Eight, Dumb

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• Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Pyramids, Hatred

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• We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.

  Lewis Mumford

  Order, Issues, Finals

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "The Fulfillment of Man", 1951.

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• Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

  George Lois

  Jobs, People, Good Job

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