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• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, Expression, Silence

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.

  Eduardo Paolozzi

  Technology, Doctors, Order

  Eduardo Paolozzi (1971). “Eduardo Paolozzi”

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• Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

  Athol Fugard

  White, Done, Realization

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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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• The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children - we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Children, Sleep, Unique

  "Woman Hating". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1974.

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• What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Important, Serious, Forgotten

  "The Three Sisters". Play by Anton Chekhov, Act I, 1901.

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• I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.

  Alain de Botton

  Mean, Connections, Needs

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.73, Penguin UK

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• It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

  F. R. Leavis

  Art, Novelists, Way

  1948 The Great Tradition, ch.1.

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• The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

  Fernand Braudel

  Cutting, Past, Keys

  Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.248, Univ of California Press

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• There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

  Edwin Land

  Eye, Trying, Firsts

  "The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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• What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Flower, Liberty, Stories

  "Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry" by Charles Altieri, (p. 169), 1989.

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• There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Long, Genius

  Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

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• The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

  Billy Cannon

  Pain, Expression, Suffering

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• When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.

  Jason Collins

  Athlete, Gay, Self

  "Parting shot: Jason Collins announces NBA retirement in his own words" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. November 19, 2014.

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• Teams use trust as currency. If it is in short supply, then the team is poor. If trust abounds, the members of the team have purchase power with each other to access each others’ gifts, talents, energy, creativity, and love. The development of trust then becomes a significant leadership strategy. Trust creates the load limits on the relationship bridges among team members

  Reggie McNeal

  Team, Creativity, Bridges

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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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• Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

  John Burroughs

  Yield, Facts, Scrutiny

  John Burroughs (1913). “The summit of the years”

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• It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

  John Dewey

  Half, Problem, Familiar

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ernest Nagel (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938”, p.112, SIU Press

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• The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

  Paul Tillich

  Fate, Self, Anxiety

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Power, Men

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• I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.

  I. F. Stone

  Reality, Political, Facts

  I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.4, PublicAffairs

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• This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.

  Gloria Estefan

  Artist, Cds, Play

  Burgundy Records announcement of '90 Millas' (orlandosentinel.com), August 10, 2007.

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• The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.

  Michael Behe

  Intelligent, Cells, Discovery

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

  Max Baucus

  Past, Rights, Abuse

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