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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

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The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword. ↗

— Ang Lee

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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