 Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. Author: A. E. Housman
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| I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. Author: Aaron Copland
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| The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." Author: Aaron Copland
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| Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. Author: Abdallah II
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| I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players. Author: Abe Lemons
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| Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? Author: Ada Cambridge
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| I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. Author: Adam Arkin
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| Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody. Author: Adam Rich
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| I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that. Author: Adam Rich
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| Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album. Author: Aimee Mann
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| The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. Author: Al Alvarez
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| All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed. Author: Al Kaline
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| I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time. Author: Al Kaline
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| What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play. Author: Al Kaline
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| The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you. Author: Al Lopez
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| It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Author: Alan Cohen
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| What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch. Author: Alan Hansen
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| You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Author: Albert Camus
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| Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. Author: Aldous Huxley
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| Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places. Author: Alessandro Del Piero
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| But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. Author: Alex Campbell
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| Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries. Author: Alex Campbell
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| I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. Author: Alex Chilton
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| Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. Author: Alex Van Halen
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| You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning. Author: Alexander Kluge
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| I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. Author: Alexis Korner
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| Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. Author: Alfred Adler
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| The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man. Author: Alfred de Vigny
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| This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
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| In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. Author: Alfred Marshall
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| I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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| You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this. Author: Alice Hoffman
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| We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it. Author: Allen Iverson
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| This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents. Author: Allen Weinstein
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| The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran. Author: Allyson Schwartz
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| I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now. Author: Amelie Mauresmo
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| It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. Author: Anais Nin
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| There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. Author: Anais Nin
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| Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. Author: Anais Nin
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| It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it. Author: Andre Agassi
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| Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. Author: Andrei Platonov
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| I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side. Author: Andy Pick
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| Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. Author: Andy Rooney
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| I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. Author: Andy Warhol
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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. Author: Ang Lee
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| In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction. Author: Angela Merkel
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| The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. Author: Anish Kapoor
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| What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world. Author: Anish Kapoor
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| The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players. Author: Anna Kournikova
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| The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? Author: Anne Rice
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| I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. Author: Anne Stevenson
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| It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. Author: Ansel Adams
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| When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. Author: Ansel Adams
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| It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men. Author: Anthony Trollope
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| Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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| Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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| The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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| The sea has neither meaning nor pity. Author: Anton Chekhov
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| After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. Author: Aristotle Onassis
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| If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Author: Aristotle Onassis
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| Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. Author: Armstrong Williams
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| Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning. Author: Armstrong Williams
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| For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong. Author: Arsene Wenger
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| At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence. Author: Arsene Wenger
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| I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things. Author: Arsene Wenger
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| I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region. Author: Arsene Wenger
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| Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. Author: Arsene Wenger
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| My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job. Author: Arthur Blank
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| The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation. Author: Arthur Erickson
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| We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is. Author: Arthur Middleton
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| Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. Author: Arvo Part
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| But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security. Author: Asa Hutchinson
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| Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me. Author: Ashley Judd
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| The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy. Author: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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| When Jackie got his big contract at CBS and was putting together what turned out to be almost a stock company of players, he remembered Frank and said, 'Get me that kid who played the jail sketch.' Author: Audrey Meadows
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| A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. Author: B. R. Ambedkar
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| All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. Author: Babe Ruth
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| No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. Author: Barbara de Angelis
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| What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. Author: Barbara de Angelis
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| Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. Author: Barbara Kruger
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| You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. Author: Barbara Sher
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| Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball. Author: Barry Bonds
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| The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. Author: Barry Commoner
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| It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization. Author: Barry Sanders
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| It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches. Author: Bear Bryant
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| I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one. Author: Ben Crenshaw
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| Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. Author: Ben Jonson
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| Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Author: Benjamin Franklin
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| Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. Author: Benjamin Franklin
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| But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire. Author: Benjamin Whorf
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| The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. Author: Bernard De Voto
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| The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together. Author: Bernie Ebbers
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| In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players. Author: Bert Campaneris
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| If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. Author: Bertrand Russell
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| We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually. Author: Beth Gibbons
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| It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people. Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej
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| I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received. Author: Bill Dixon
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