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Meaning

of Mean

That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.

That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.

Sense; power of thinking.

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Meaning Quotations

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony Robbins

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Tony Robbins

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Tony Robbins

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

Meaning Translations

meaning in Afrikaans is plan, betekenis
meaning in Danish is betydning, hensigt
meaning in Dutch is doel, plan, bedoeling, strekking
meaning in Finnish is merkitys
meaning in French is sens, intention, importance, signification
meaning in Italian is levatura
meaning in Latin is sententia
meaning in Spanish is significacion
meaning in Swedish is betyder, betydelse

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