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«If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?»
«Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.»
«Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.»
Author: Henry Youngman
(Comedian, Violinist)
| About:
Affection,
Houses,
Love,
Meaning,
Men and Women,
Tenderness
| Keywords:
come home, tenderness
«Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living»
Author: Xenophon
| About:
Art,
Living,
Meaning
| Keywords:
agriculture, best of all, high-minded, highminded, honorable, occupations, procure, procured, procures, procuring
«Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Meaning
| Keywords:
and how, detailed, details, died, distinguish, ends, one-man
«As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Destiny,
Life,
Love,
Meaning
| Keywords:
contradict, contradicted, contradicting, destiny, do-nothing, that means nothing, wishes
«Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.»
«Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.»
«Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.»
«A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit»
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