That the true measure of success is how much meaning your work brings to yourself and others.

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Which brings me to the question of how much meaning words contain.

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Thomas Fleming, a University of Washington statistician who was a prominent skeptic about the early approval of Iressa, spent much of he meaning working out exactly how the screening trials were designed.

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The first very minor one is that the only real legal meaning of a credit rating refers to how much capital a bank has to allocate to a holding in a particular asset.

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Under normal circumstances (meaning reasonably flexible markets and reasonably high employment), employers gauge how much they are willing to pay someone to do a particular job.

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The problem with many smart technologies is that their designers, in the quest to root out the imperfections of the human condition, seldom stop to ask how much frustration, failure and regret is required for happiness and achievement to retain any meaning.

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By the sixth year, the participants, now in their mid-30s, had split into two camps: the 60% who remained "at war" with their bodies, and the remaining 40% who decided to prioritize their health, meaning they paid more attention to sleep, exercise and diet and set limits on how much they allowed work to consume them.

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