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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. -- Gustav Stresemann
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. -- Socrates
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say. -- Giorgio Moroder
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.' -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. -- Gore Vidal
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. -- Lewis Mumford
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. -- Steve Jobs
Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose. -- Walter Kaufmann
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. -- Oscar Wilde
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation. -- Hans Jonas
Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things. -- J. Cole
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. -- Paul Gauguin
One of my defining beliefs is that Jesus Christ has taken all of my guilt before God, and that he has been raised from the dead. That gives incredible hope and meaning to every day of my life - that nothing done in this world is wasted when it's done for him and his glory, and that there will be a day of justice and reward for the entire world. -- Joshua Harris
The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. -- Frederic Chopin
Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it. -- Tony Robbins
If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. -- Lauren Oliver
Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now. -- Peter Brook
Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance. -- Jarod Kintz
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God. -- Jim George
If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live. -- Chris Matakas
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. -- Confucius
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum. -- Leonhard Euler
Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments. -- Jeff Wall
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. -- James Russell Lowell
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. -- Albert Camus
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. -- Truman Capote
Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future. -- Bill Crawford
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning. -- Sengcan
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A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. -- N. Scott Momaday
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater. -- Anton Chekhov
An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning. -- Gerald Brommer
What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning? -- Sherry Turkle
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. -- Gilles Deleuze
When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened. -- Carl Jung
Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning. -- W. Edwards Deming
They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation. -- Ayn Rand
Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning. -- Pope Gregory XVI
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined. -- E. L. Doctorow
For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions. -- Czeslaw Milosz
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance. -- Albert Camus
The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art. -- John Cowper Powys
Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold. -- N. Scott Momaday
Life has no meaning a priori"¦ It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God. -- John Piper
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority. -- James Madison
When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty. -- Marieta Maglas
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. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

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