#meaning

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred. ↗

— Natalie Portman

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound. ↗

— Gary Ross

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The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. ↗

— Herbert Read

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On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#become #environment #events #how #interpret

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

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