#meaning

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

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These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. ↗

— Hal Sparks

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together. ↗

— Martin Lawrence

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