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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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• 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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• On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stars, Men, Space

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• The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful...the pack provides very clear guidelines...overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.

  Linda Armstrong

  Assessment, Practice, Analysis

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• Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation between low and high performers, the actual cash increase is insufficient to sustain performance – or it drives the wrong behaviors. … Effective management is a system, not a pay plan. The mistake is that companies try to solve all their problems with pay.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Mistake, Trying, Typical

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• Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow.

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Men, Long

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.137, Bantam

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• Don’t flirt, have sex, or engage in emotional affairs with your friends’ significant others. This shouldn’t need to be said, but it needs to be said. That significant other is an asshole, and you don’t want to be involved with an asshole who’s used goods. If you want to be with an asshole, get a fresh asshole of your very own. They are abundant.

  Roxane Gay

  Sex, Flirting, Emotional

  "Bad Feminist: Essays". Book by Roxane Gay, August 5, 2014.

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• As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Significant Things

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• From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Emotional, Feelings, Mind

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• There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

  Josh Billings

  Latin, Wit, Caution

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• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Communication, Dark, Light

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Thinking, Government, Support

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• Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment options. The trick is to GET to the long term. Think in terms of 5 years, 10 years and longer. Do your planning and asset allocation ahead of time. Choose a portion of your assets to invest in the stock market - and stick with it! Yes, the bad times will come, but over the truly long term, the good times will win out - and I hope the lessons from 2008 will help get you there to enjoy them.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

  Saul Bellow

  Dream, Heart, Men

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• At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

  Isaac Asimov

  Two, Hydrogen Atom, Space

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• Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Light, Doors

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• As IT enters the mobile-cloud era, IT providers need to be more innovative about addressing customers' fast changing needs. Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market. Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Past, Clouds, Years

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• When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

  Dwight Edwards

  Opportunity, Essentials, Appearance

  Dwight Edwards (2013). “Releasing the Rivers Within: The Exhilaration of Utter Dependence on God”, p.104, WaterBrook

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• For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album? ... The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn't approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there.

  Kanye West

  Years, Issues, Albums

  "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

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• An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, May, Clique

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Book, Men

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• To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fighting, Reality, Overcoming

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• Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

  Derek Bok

  Differences, Choices, Different

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• I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

  Steve Largent

  Football, Jobs, Player

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