Significant Quotes - Page 13

• If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap.

  Francis Collins

  Ideas, Law, Resurrection

  Source: inters.org

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• You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really remarkable because they claim that [Franklin] Roosevelt was impeded by the Neutrality Act. On the other hand, he bitterly condemned a Mexican businessman for sending several guns to the Republic. If you look back, oil was the one commodity that [Francisco] Franco could not receive from the Germans and the Italians, so that was quite significant.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Gun, Government

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I've sought a constructive relationship with Russia, but what I have also been is realistic in recognizing that there is some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world.

  Barack Obama

  Russia, Views, Differences

  "Obama urges Trump against realpolitik in relations with Russia" by Philip Oltermann, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2016.

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• On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

  Barack Obama

  Russia, Ukraine, Differences

  Source: time.com

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• What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Imagination, Focus

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Frank Moore Cross is also a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, which he's been since they were discovered more than 50 years ago. He's just completing an edition of one of the most significant scrolls for Biblical studies, the Book of Samuel from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

  Hershel Shanks

  Book, Biblical, Years

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Scales, Cosmic

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The reality is that Qatar is an ally of the United States. There are a significant number of American troops that are stationed in Qatar. What we did for them and do for them is security for their facilities.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reality, Qatar, Numbers

  "Politico called Clinton's Sunday-show laugh "calculated" and a 'cackle,' but Giuliani's laugh 'good-natured'" by Kathleen Henehan, www.mediamatters.org. December 11, 2007.

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• Methodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in the way our culture conceives of homosexuality, represents an advance not only in scholarship but in cultural criticism as well.

  Michel Foucault

  Play, Rejection, Criticism

  Source: www.questia.com

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• I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but something was worth a try.

  Bob Hawke

  Trying, Able, Figures

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's very easy to underrate her significance. I think she finds the Commonwealth and her position as Head of the Commonwealth infinitely more interesting than being the Queen of England, because she has no significant role in the latter.

  Bob Hawke

  Queens, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Views, India And Pakistan

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• I'm probably harder on myself than I need to be, but it's important to me if I'm going to ask an audience for an hour of their time that I don't waste their time. I want to give them something significant to chew on.

  Bryan Fuller

  Giving, Important, Needs

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• There are plenty of meetings, receptions, dinners, and so if you are [at the U.N.] any length of time, and I was there for four and a half years, you formed pretty significant relationships with people from all over the world. And that's important to the work you do. If you're trying to rally the General Assembly to vote for something that matters to the United States, those personal relationships count.

  Susan Rice

  Years, People, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

  Vivek Shraya

  Art, White, Addresses

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Controversial, Social

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The two tendencies are antithetical in significant respects. These are distinctions that should be kept in mind, however one feels that the problems and dilemmas that constantly arise should be resolved.

  Noam Chomsky

  Two, Mind, Problem

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I think the Turks' willingness to take seriously action on the borders to stop the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIL is significant.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Borders, Joining

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think at times of significant stress people are going to be looking for something and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring.

  Barack Obama

  Stress, Thinking, People

  "The Huddle Over Cabinet Picks; Obama Warns Against Crude Nationalism; Rogers Leaves Transition Team; Ryan on Same Page with Trump; House Dems Delay Vote; Mexico Readies for Deportations". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 15, 2016.

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• Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Thinking, Reality, Way

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy changes, even in our first two years, when we had larger majorities than Mr. Trump will enjoy when he comes into office.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Government, Years

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference". ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

  Kiki Smith

  Age, Different, Driven

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.

  Kiki Smith

  Family And Friends, Population, Life Is

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more. They've just discovered a significant violation of the German Constitution that had been concealed from the Parliament.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Serious, Germany

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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