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Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity. ↗

— William Safire

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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. ↗

— Dennis Banks

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If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ↗

— Albert Camus

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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ↗

— Federico Fellini

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I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.' ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. ↗

— Pete Hamill

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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. ↗

— Donald Kagan

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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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