#meaning

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning. ↗

— William Safire

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When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. ↗

— William Safire

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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

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It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

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