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• If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

  Martin Jacques

  White, Racism, Minorities

  "Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2007.

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• The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Trying, Agents

  Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.56, Pluto Press

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• To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

  Paul Rotha

  People, Directors, Cinema

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• Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Space, Meditation, Waiting

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• The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race and therefore also personal worth and has made these the pillars of its structure. These are the most important factors of its view of life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, Views, Race

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• Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Effort, Acting

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.384, Harper Collins

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• The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, Vanity, Order

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Long, Giving, Vitality

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.

  Josef Pieper

  Sensual, Patents, States

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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• The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Past, Keys, Giving

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• The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Love Is, Law

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1940). “Why the Christian Church is Not Pacifist”

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• God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

  J. I. Packer

  Book, Character, Scripture

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• In the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, it says that the land of Israel will come under attack by the armies of the ungodly nations, and it says that Libya will be among them. Do you understand the significance of that? Libya has now gone Communist, and that's a sign that the day of Armageddon isn't far off.

  Ronald Reagan

  Army, Israel, Land

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• In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

  Fischer Black

  Real, Research, World

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• At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Military, Flying, Historical

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• A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Attitude, Sixty Minutes, Sky

  John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”

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• Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

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• All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Fighting, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.271

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• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Silence, Acting

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

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• The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

  Joseph Conrad

  Real, Community, Crime

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.145, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Significance is sweet.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Sweet

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.573, Delphi Classics

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• Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

  Max Weber

  Culture, World, Infinity

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.115, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

  Max Weber

  Play, Events, Roles

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I need to learn. Joy is at the heart of God's plan for human beings. The reason for this is worth pondering awhile: Joy is at the heart of God himself. We will never understand the significance of joy in human life until we understand its importance to God. I suspect that most of us seriously underestimate God's capacity for joy.

  John Ortberg

  Heart, Joy, Needs

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or meaning, like objects or trees, animals, people or days, all of which are there without a reason, without a function and without a purpose. This is the quality that counts. Even so, there are good and bad pictures.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Animal

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Feb 18, 2016

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