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• Sex, that’s meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that’s heavy. That’s like an hour.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sex, Dinner, Hours

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• People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Meaningful, War, People

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Being Me, Life Is

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• If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Communication, Men, Purpose

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• Power is the engine of the world, and sex and money its oil and lubricants. God is at best the invocation before you start the engine-meaningless if you have no engine to start! God is a goli, a multi-flavoured pill, invented by those who have power, money and sex, to give to those who have none! Love is another great goli. Some days we too swallow these golis. They feel good, like a joint, a temporary high! But they are not the reality. The reality is power, money, sex! And yes, there's another goli-morality!

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Sex, Reality, Love Is

  "The Story of My Assassins: A Novel".

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• I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

  Henry Petroski

  Engineering, Numbers, Criteria

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". ASK OCE Interview, appel.nasa.gov. February 26, 2010.

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• If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

  Michael Josephson

  Important Values, Relics, Ifs

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• Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Singapore, Always Believe, Ifs

  "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 1998.

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• Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Challenges, Way

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• The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.

  Euvin Naidoo

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is not touched. One can begin to reason only when a clear picture has been formed in the imagination. Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Education, Teaching, Imagination

  W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Mathematician's Delight”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of rules without understanding them, and apply them in an intelligent and useful fashion. Given sufficient practice, the brain eventually discovers (or creates) meaning in what began as a meaningless game.

  Keith Devlin

  Education, Fashion, Math

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• My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together.

  Padma Subrahmanyam

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Divine Power, Fame, Empty

  "Sappho". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1 Scene 5, 1818.

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• Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

  Bill Gross

  Ideas, Portfolios, Oblivion

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• There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Biblical, Doctrine, Dull

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• Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed.

  Laozi

  Pride, Blessing, Helping Others

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• When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless.

  Marshall Sylver

  Agreement, Firsts, Break

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• We who are born from above testify to the change that God has wrought in our hearts. Perhaps the best time for you to tell someone what has taken place in your life is when that person comes to you and says, 'What has happened to you? I have known you before and after. You are different, Tell me about it.' This is the best opportunity to tell someone about Christ. If they don't see a difference, all the talking in the world is meaningless.

  Paris Reidhead

  Taken, Heart, Opportunity

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• Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Change, Thinking, One Day

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• A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

  Dave Grohl

  Wall, Responsibility, Mean

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• You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Emotion, Language, Show Me

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can't drill our way out of this crisis.' What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, 'You can't eat your way out of being hungry!' 'You can't water your way out of drought!' 'You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!' 'You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!' Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil? It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.

  Ann Coulter

  Twilight, Mean, Sleep

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• We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

  Susan Moody

  Giving, Goes On, Ends

  Susan Moody (1998). “Return to the Secret Garden”, G K Hall & Company

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• Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.

  Ann Leckie

  Mean, Choices, Wish

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