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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

Reality, Words, Control

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell

Fear, Democracy, Down

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm

Life, Except, Unfolding

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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life, Greatest, Help

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Andy Rooney

Old, Word, Vegetarian

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Rather, Ask

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Henry Rollins

Pain, Feeling, Personal

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung

Life, Greatest, Worth

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Human, State

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
John D. Rockefeller

Time, Thought, Study

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Henri Nouwen

Silence, Words, Cannot

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles

Give, Working, Themselves

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.
B. R. Ambedkar

Religion, Good, Social

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.
Bertrand Russell

Give, Able, Might

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
Les Brown

Life, After, Become

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Attitude, Themselves, Lies

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
Tim Burton

Real, Words, Confused

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal

Words, Different, Effects

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Heart, Give, Same

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Life, Moment, Lose

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.
Barbara de Angelis

Life, Pain, Human

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life, Him, Himself

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen Hawking

Life, Work, Purpose

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Jane Roberts

Dreaming, Events, Awake

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Full, Force, Laws

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale

Life, Work, Time

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Sidney Sheldon

Woman, Become, Another

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells

Great, True, May

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Point, Infinite, Finite

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland

Patience, Understand, Knowing

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