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• The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all.

  Amy Trask

  Religious, Race, Ethnicity

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• Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Jobs, Believe, Cutting

  "Studies challenge wisdom of GOP candidates' plans". www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.

  Tom Vilsack

  Struggle, People, Weight

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• It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

  Michael Josephson

  Successful, Goal, Being Successful

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• Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Believe, Pride, Destiny

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• With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Fall, Guilt, Abnormal

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”

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• Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Teacher, Children

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• It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.

  Roger Kimball

  Attitude, Practice, Perfection

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• To you to live a significant life, you have to become intentional.

  John C. Maxwell

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• The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

  Jan Karon

  Dull

  Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: Novels Six Through Nine; Plus a Father Tim Novel”, p.454, Penguin

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• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Ideas, Numbers, People

  "Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 28, 2010.

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• There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There's a big difference between knowing and doing. It's not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it's how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you're right, your future will be dim.

  Phil McGraw

  Two, Differences, Knowing

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• It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Impossible, Problem, Solve

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• If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

  Peter Senge

  Real, Leader, Innovation

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• The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Art, Doors, Use

  Sri Aurobindo (1999). “The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development”, p.175, Lotus Press

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• The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.

  Robert Scheer

  Children, Fate, Compassion

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• At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it's one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.

  Chuck Todd

  War, Winning, Long

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Winning, Men, Nominations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

  Peter McWilliams

  Gambling, Drug, Would Be

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Criticism, Body, Information

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.67, Pantheon

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• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  Pat Boone

  Thinking, Honor, Lifetime

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• God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

  Michael Dowd

  Reality, Missing, Sacred

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• Satan delegates high-ranking members of the hierarchy of evil spirits to control nations, regions, cities, tribes, people groups, neighborhoods and other significant social networks of human beings throughout the world. Their major assignment is to prevent God from being glorified in their territory, which they do through directing the activity of lower-ranking demons.

  C. Wagner

  Cities, Evil, People

  C. Peter Wagner (2012). “Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare: Wrestling with Dark Angels”, p.43, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I am flattered that Bob Carter should ask me to launch what I think is a significant new book on climate change. I have developed a very high regard for Bob in the years that I have known him. He has been a terrific and leading voice in combatting the scare mongering that we have all been subjected to on the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

  Nick Minchin

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term.

  John H. Sununu

  Self, Long, Done

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