#meaning of

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. ↗

— Charles Williams

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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us. ↗

— Francis Wright

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I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family. ↗

— Nia Long

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

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No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. ↗

— Socrates

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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ↗

— Samuel Adams

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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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