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• The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.

  Max Planck

  Art, Creative, Atheism

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• I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.

  Macklemore

  Spiritual, Religious, Thinking

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

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• Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.

  Marvin Harris

  World, Too Much, Danger

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• Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant

  Ellen Dissanayake

  Art, Memorable, Exercise

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• Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Successful, Worry, Being Successful

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• In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Men, Intelligent, Two

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• In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.

  Madeleine Albright

  America, Iran, Political

  "Secretary of State Albright Announces Easing of U.S. Trade Ban on Iran". Speech at CNN, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2000.

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• Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

  Rollo May

  Self Esteem, Society, Trying

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Past, Self, Progress

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• Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.

  Bev Perdue

  Powerful, Believe, Having Fun

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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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• 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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• 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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• No one can remain neutral regarding Jesus' resurrection.
  The claim is too staggering,
  the event too earthshaking,
  the implications too significant
  and the matter too serious.
  We must either receive it or reject it as truth for us.
  To remain indifferent or undecided is to reject it.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Matter, Serious

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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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• Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life Lesson, School, Hair

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• I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Thinking, Iraq, Waiting

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All significant achievement results largely from perseverance.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Believe

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• Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Pain, Anger

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• We are living in a time where we just don't have enough time. People are rushed. They're over worked, over scheduled. Not enough resources. ...But the thing that I want people to understand in this campaign is that families can make small manageable changes in their lives that can have pretty significant impacts.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Impact, People

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• One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Children

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• Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, World, Divinity

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• When every action of yours is preceded by witnessing, then every move you make in this world becomes perfect and significant.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Moving, Perfect, World

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• I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.

  Roy Romer

  Running, Thinking, Hands

  "Democrats' National Chair Steve Grossman resigns". www.cnn.com.

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