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• A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many women presently pressing for power on the political, sociological or ecclesial scene are unbeautiful in their unsmilling press for dominance. Contorted faces and clenched fists are particularly repellant in woman, who is gifted with unique powers to radiate love and extend healing hands.

  Mother Mary Francis

  Healing, Unique, Hands

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• Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.

  Barbara Hurd

  Memories, May, Becoming

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• An 11 year old sister has been taught by the media that her body is an object, will be compared to other bodies, and that it holds more significance than her mind or talent. This should not be the first thing she learns. This should not be her first social experience.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Media, Years, Mind

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• A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Believe, Successful, People

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• It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Jesus, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

  Amartya Sen

  World, Social, Women's Education

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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written

  Peter Warlock

  Yesterday, Musical, Today

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• For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.

  Anthony Powell

  Taken, Lasts, Events

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, p.274, University of Chicago Press

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• The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

  John Piper

  Reality, Want, Morality

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• Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Teach, Artist

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

  Om Puri

  Art, Cinema, Actors

  "Om Puri obituary" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2017.

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• That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city. The Temple of Heaven slipped by underneath, that perfect pattern in its ample park. Then the wide plain ruled to the far horizon. Soon the aerodrome.

  Cecil Arthur Lewis

  Cities, Giving, Perfect

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• When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

  Richard Rohr

  Mirrors, Way, Void

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• Self-development is the only thing that keeps a person from burning out. We all have many needs - the need for certainty, the need for variety, the need for significance, and the need for connection. But, ultimately, we must grow, and we must contribute in a meaningful way in order to feel fulfilled.

  Tony Robbins

  Meaningful, Self, Order

  Interview with Dr. Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, India, Facts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don't think there are any rules in art. It's not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Art, Real

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• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

  Albert Bandura

  Cutting, Self, People

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• I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Basketball, Training, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Political, Style, Important

  ""Evil Can also Be Beautiful"". Interview with Matthias Matussek, Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• Every day, I'll get sent clips via email. I watch them and see if there's something of substance or significance.Some nights are super busy; some nights are quiet.

  Chris Pronger

  Night, Email, Watches

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

  Narendra Modi

  Sports, India, Our Society

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• To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Mind, Naked

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• If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

  John Piper

  Men, Compassion, Mercy

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• God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of God in missions while linking us with endless grace for every need.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Giving, Grace

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

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• Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment

  Paul Klee

  Blessed, Taken, Forever

  Paul Klee (1966). “Paul Klee : (1879 - 1940)”

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