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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
This dependence on the visual connection with objects is a common trait among hoarders.: Randy Frost and Gail Steketee, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, 2010
Making decisions about whether to keep and how to organize objects requires categorization skills, confidence in one's ability to remember, and sustained attention. To maintain order, one also needs the ability to efficiently assess the value or utility of an object.: Randy Frost and Gail Steketee, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, 2010
There are many truths by which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.: Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
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I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made?: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
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What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.: Bergen Evans

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