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You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

Emily Carr

Canadian painter and writer (1871-1945)

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Philip K. Dick

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

Thurston Moore

American guitarist (born 1958)

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

Fiona Shaw

Irish actress (born 1958)

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

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher (1818-1883)

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

Nelson Rockefeller

vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who’s unemployed in the world, you feel there’s no meaning and there’s a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

Hans Blix

Swedish politician

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

Marilyn vos Savant

American magazine columnist, author and lecturer

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Jean-Paul Sartre

French existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

Neil Diamond

American recording artist; singer-songwriter

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