Can you help me with the meaning of this quote?
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can't reach a conclusion before your done\nanything can happen from now til the end
737181
It sounds like a line from the old "Star Trek," when someone was insulting Mr. Spock.\n\nHis answer would probably have been something like, "If you are expecting an answer, your question is illogical. If your question is rhetorical I expect you are trying to insult me which is impossible since I'm incapable of feeling emotion and therefore - feeling insulted."
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It is "You CAN'T have your cake and eat it, too."\n\nOnce you eat the cake, you do not have it anymore.\n\nIt means you can't have it both ways at once.
468707
I believe this is a quote of Holden Caufield from J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. In telling us his story he begins to miss everybody. In a sense he is saying nostalgia is self perpetuating or futile.
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It's from "The Rubaiyat," by Omar Khayyam, in the classic translation by Edward FitzGerald.  The poem as a whole is a paean to hedonism (especially wine-drinking).\n\nThe entire verse is:\n\n"Yesterday this day's madness did prepare;\nTo-morrow's silence, triumph, or despair:\nDrink! for you not know whence you came, nor why:\nDrink! for you know not why you go, nor where."\n\nThis means yesterday was pointless; it was just getting ready to make today and tomorrow a mess, so you might as well drink.
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The whole quote is: Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.  ~William Temple
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It means a quotation or saying
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I think it means things are going to get worse before they get better. I really like that quote. I do not know where it originated but it is inspiring.
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k.g. is right. It's like he's saying "To live or not to live, that is the question..." then he goes on to wonder if it's better to live and suffer or take the "cowardly" way out and end it all.\n\nHAMLET: To be, or not to be--that is the question: \nWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer \nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune \nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles \nAnd by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-- \nNo more--and by a sleep to say we end \nThe heartache, and the thousand natural shocks \nThat flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation \nDevoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-- \nTo sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, \nFor in that sleep of death what dreams may come \nWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil, \nMust give us pause. There's the respect \nThat makes calamity of so long life. \nFor who would bear the whips and scorns of time, \nTh' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely \nThe pangs of despised love, the law's delay, \nThe insolence of office, and the spurns \nThat patient merit of th' unworthy takes, \nWhen he himself might his quietus make \nWith a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, \nTo grunt and sweat under a weary life, \nBut that the dread of something after death, \nThe undiscovered country, from whose bourn \nNo traveller returns, puzzles the will, \nAnd makes us rather bear those ills we have \nThan fly to others that we know not of? \nThus conscience does make cowards of us all, \nAnd thus the native hue of resolution \nIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, \nAnd enterprise of great pitch and moment \nWith this regard their currents turn awry \nAnd lose the name of action. -- Soft you now, \nThe fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons \nBe all my sins remembered.
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What is this referring to? Can you post a clarification?
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Yeah, I think it's saying that something has no meaning or worth.\n\n"Oh no you di'n floccinaucinihilipilificate me!"
175709
You really need more of the poem in order to really explain the line.\n\nI'm going to guess that you're quoting William Wordsworth, and say that it basically means that the child grows into a man.  Generally a person keeps a similar personality throughout most of their life, especially once they've become a teenager.  What Wordsworth was saying in that poem is that the person he was as a child still exist within him now that he is fully grown, and will still be there when he is older.  It's one of those whole your past affects your present affects your future things.
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I think that the meaning to this quote is quite a spiritual one.  Since it is certain that you were born and it is certain that you will someday die.  So when a doctor tells you that you are plagued by an incurable cancer, you are experiencing the possibility of death only because you were born.  However, the key word is possibility and that is where "save for the middle" comes in. It is what you do with the gift (your birth) of your life (the middle) that provides determines your end (your death).
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Basically the quote tells you that you can only grow or advance as high or as far as your dreams will take you. So to make great strides in life you must dream big. It also tells you that it is not nearly enough to dream, but you must put some sweat equity into achieving that dream. \n\nIt figures into my life through every scientific or engineering advance that man makes. The fact that I am communicating with you right now over the internet is attributable to that quote. Someone had to dream of such a great endeaver, and then had to work hard enough to carry that out.
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haha, i actually said this today. \n\nit just means that you may be wanting to do good, but your actions are evil. \nfor example, we went into iraq to supposedly bring them democracy, which is good right? but we killed tons of iraquis in the process, not so good. it just means that those actions ARE taken into consideration even if your intentions are good. the means do NOT justify the aims.
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It means that even though you may have found your one great love things happen.  Specifically death.  And if you really love someone you wouldn't want them to spend the rest of their life pining away for the past.  You want them to be happy.  That's what the character is saying,"I will be happy".  Obviously, I have way to much time on my hands!!!
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what does this question mean?