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- Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
- Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
- If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis
- Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
- CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex."
- Ed Moran, Covina, California
- If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away words and keep just the meanings?
- Ludwig Wittgenstein via Anatol Holt
- Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.
- Mark Leeper
- Rosencrantz: Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no...Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no - what you've been is not on boats. - Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
- The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
- John Macy
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
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