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- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941), (Supreme Court Justice) 1928
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
- Unknown
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
- Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
- Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense (1946)
- Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Unknown
- The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
- Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love
- Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.
- Graham Clarke
- Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
- Instead of conceiving of society as something established for the defense of individual rights, fair contracts, and due process of law, we are invited to see it in terms of the biblical vision. This way of living, thinking, and acting where autonomy and related rights take priority has seriously jeopardized the meaning and values of all institutions in our society.
- Detroit Archbishop Adam J. Maida, in a speech to Catholic judges including Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, and O'Connor
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