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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity."

Believe Lying Meaningful
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible."

Fighting Adventure Meaningful
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Steven Morrissey Singer-Songwriter
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"The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era."

Writing Years Meaningful
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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain."

Children Pain Meaningful
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward."

Real Decision Meaningful
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing."

People Work Meaningful
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Larry Howes Artist
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"One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a talent of Borges' caliber, but he is an inspiration and a proof that one can be a meaningful and successful writer while blind."

Inspiration Successful Meaningful
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won."

Freedom Meaningful Automation
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Jack Ma Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
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"You never know that the things you're doing are that meaningful to society."

Knows Meaningful
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"The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted."

Writing Reality Meaningful
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"There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am]."

Couple Meaningful Fart
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Jaime Murray Actress
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"Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!"

Sex Meaningful Learning Something New
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Maria Borges Model
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"I've been successfully wearing my TWA during the fashion month in September 2015, but also I felt like my third appearance at a Victoria's Secret show would be more meaningful or impactful if I could help a few women embrace their natural beauty."

Fashion Secret Meaningful
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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling."

Children Kids Meaningful
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Keller Easterling Architect
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"In the context of the kind of infrastructure space I'm looking at, I'm making a very unlikely argument by saying that all the stuff that's repeated, from spatial products to whole cities, which looks so daunting to architects, might be especially empowering. At this moment, it might be harder to make a meaningful object form alone, but easier to make an active form that can piggyback on those multipliers to recondition spaces in a politically significant way."

Kind Meaningful Empowering
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
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"The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion."

Meaningful Battle Abortion
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Georges Bernanos Novelist, Essayist
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"[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred."

Names Meaningful Hatred
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