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• Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Political, Way

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• It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is.

  Jacques Maritain

  Artist, Fishing, Clay

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• Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

  Will Durant

  Dream, War, Civilization

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• [The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  World Government, Order, Nwo

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• Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

  Stephen G. Post

  People, Important, Unselfish Love

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• It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

  D. V. Ager

  Stories, Fossils, Students

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• I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.

  Michael Feinstein

  Long, Important, Term

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• For a significant man
  woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Men, Iron

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• Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the status quo. The paradigm of sustainability, with its notions of limitations and carrying capacities confronts dominant paradigms of progress which do not recognize limits to unchecked growth

  Hazel Henderson

  Political, Challenges, Growth

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• But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.

  Phil Robertson

  Freedom, Party, Rights

  "Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, 'a true giant of history', dies aged 91" by Kevin Rawlinson, Kirsten Han, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2015.

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• There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences.

  Geeta Rao Gupta

  Health, People, Pakistan

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• What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Successful, Opportunity

  Peter F. Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of the business-dominated consensus, it is possible for populate action to have a significant impact on policy, though indirectly. That was an important lesson for the Indochina Wars.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Party, Impact

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• To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, Factual, Multiplicity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Something significant has been lost.

  Tom Russell

  Lost, Has Beens

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• To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Technology, Arrogant, Benefits

  Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

  Lennox Lewis

  Pieces, Flesh, Facts

  "The wrap: Dismay at State of the Union address" by Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2002.

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• The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment. ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Fighting, Accomplishment, President

  "U.S. leaders, political groups, welcome news of bin Laden's death", www.cnn.com. May 2, 2011.

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• All significant battles are fought within self.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Self, Battle

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• What's culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn't grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.

  Tom Anderson

  Growing Up, People, Age

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Consensus and dialogue have always played a significant role, especially in Danish society. Of course there are basic values that must be respected, but within this framework, we are a liberal and tolerant country where everyone can live as they desire and according to their tradition. That is the Danish way.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Desire, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.

  Alan Weisman

  Simple, Thinking, Technology

  Source: www.today.com

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• Sometimes our significant others travel with us.

  Ketch Secor

  Sometimes, Significant Other

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.

  Chris Lehane

  Successful, People, Expectations

  "Crisis PR Expert: BP Disaster is 'Unspinnable'". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 3, 2010.

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• The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Ideas, Discovery

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