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• New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

  Jenny Shipley

  Taken, Years, Two

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• I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

  Andrew Solomon

  College, Self, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.660, Simon and Schuster

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• It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

  Lou Holtz

  Successful, Being Successful

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• Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work, which fires the imagination and spurs men to expend their best efforts, and which acts as a catalyst by including chains of other reactions.

  Ernst Stuhlinger

  Strong, Motivation, Men

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• Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.

  Edward Teller

  May, Global Warming, Carbon

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• A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mean, Political, Phases

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• If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that God will judge men justly, and they will not be able to raise their voices because of the base upon which He judges them.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Voice, Judging

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

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• When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Police, Records, Holding On

  "High court reverses inmate's death sentence" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us.I am still not capable - or rather unwilling - to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere.

  Werner Herzog

  Men, Light, Rose

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• The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

  Daniel Taylor

  Events, Stories, Action

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• I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

  Alexei Sayle

  Mean, Necks, Forget

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• Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Example, Networking

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• Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

  Eric Alterman

  Disappointment, Issues, Accomplishment

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack Obama”, p.1, Nation Books

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• No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

  Egon Schiele

  Art, Erotic, Filth

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• I don't think it's possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner. Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets, so there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different. I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.

  Alan Greenspan

  Real, Thinking, Different

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• Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.

  Steve Israel

  Men, Pay Gap, Gaps

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• The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.

  Ian Wilmut

  Powerful, Needs, Cloning

  Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, Colin Tudge (2001). “The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control”, p.298, Harvard University Press

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• Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

  Leopold Kronecker

  Discovery, Lines, Lasts

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• The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Long, Reform, Lists

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• When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Mother, Expectations, Waiting

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• At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.

  Bill Goldberg

  Impact, Hands, Events

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• The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Discovery

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.205, Penguin

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• All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

  Donald E. Westlake

  1960s, Publishing, Fewer

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

  Mao Zedong

  Bourgeoisie, Good Things, China

  Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works: The period of the socialist revolution and socialist construction. (I)”

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• In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

  Hugh Hefner

  Fun, Social, Process

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