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• The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Military, Men

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• Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Opinion, Source

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.238, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Mother, Autumn, Events

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.23, Anza Publishing

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• Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Motivation, Unique, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.78, Beacon Press

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• Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

  James Lafferty

  Glasses, Historical, Mind

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• The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.

  Chris Carter

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.'

  Oliver Sacks

  Weed, Atheist, Marijuana

  "Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 6, 2012.

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• Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Reactions

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.24, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

  Philip Yancey

  Missing, Done, May

  Philip Yancey (1988). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.223, Harper Collins

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• The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Mother, Thinking, Humanity

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• In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Clever, Character

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• A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need other people saying that you're good in order to be good.

  Ronda Rousey

  Art, Order, People

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• There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Past, Keys, Massacres

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• Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself.
  Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others.

  Bob Buford

  Mean, Lives Of Others, Knowledge And Experience

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• Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a symbol of the victory of death over life. By the Resurrection it was that the Crucified One was "declared to be the Son of God with power," the great truth on which the Christian's faith is founded, and to which his hope is anchored. That Christ died for our sins is the Gospel of the Christian religion regarded as a human cult. The Gospel of Christianity goes on to declare "That He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures"

  Robert Anderson

  Christian, Son, Rose

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• The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense of pride in their own civilization because of the prestige that science fhas in the present day world. It is furthermore a testament to the way Islam was able to cultivate various sciences extensively without becoming alienated from the Islamic world view and without creating a science whose application would destroy the world of nature and the harmony that must exist between man and the natural environment.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Pride, Men

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• Experience has taught me that if we, like President Monson, exercise our faith and look to God for help, we will not be overwhelmed with the burdens of life. We will not feel incapable of doing what we are called to do or need to do. We will be strengthened, and our lives will be filled with peace and joy.We will come to realize that most of what we worry about is not of eternal significance—and if it is, the Lord will help us. But we must have the faith to look up and the courage to follow His direction.

  Carl B. Cook

  Exercise, Burdens Of Life, Worry

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• Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance).

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot

  Silence, Historical, Archives

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Men, Space

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• Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Men, Gestures, Able

  "Sufism in Britain". Book by Ron Geaves, Theodore Gabriel, A&C Black, p. 64, 2013.

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• The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Men, Order

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• Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

  David Deutsch

  May, Schemes, Cosmic

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• The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating, Black feminist thought can offer African-American women a different view of ourselves and our worlds

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Practice, Our World, Views

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• The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

  Jonathan Ive

  Caring, Views, Simplicity

  Design Museum Interview, designmuseum.org. 2007.

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• If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Communication, Men, Purpose

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