Significant Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I am for decriminalization. The significant aspect of that is that we don't force prostitutes to have to get a license to work. I think the whole idea of licensing consensual sex between adults is offensive.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Risk, Dying, Wake Up

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!

  Al Gore

  Smoking, Global Warming, Cigarette

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• All significant battles are fought within self.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Self, Battle

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• All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Men, Cosmos

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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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• In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.

  Cris Mazza

  Girl, College, Special

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Despite a lingering low inventory and increasing prices, consumers still have the confidence to purchase a home. More and more people recognize the many opportunities in this market and the significant value of low interest rates. As job creation and wages continue to improve, many more first-time buyers are now making the decision to become homeowners.

  Dave Liniger

  Jobs, Home, Opportunity

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• The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Wise, Reality, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.

  Minor White

  Intuition, Mind, Trying

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• Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

  Vince Cable

  Significant Change, Fundamentals, Unlikely

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• We know that expanded access to natural gas is important to families and businesses in communities across Ontario. That's why our government is developing new natural gas programs to improve access, which will generate economic activity, attract significant investment, create jobs, and break down barriers in our communities

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Government, Community

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• I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Attention, News

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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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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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written

  Peter Warlock

  Yesterday, Musical, Today

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• The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.

  George Inness

  Art, Mistake, Men

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• It's significant that four out of the five nominated comedies were run by women. That's not by accident. Women are storytellers, too. What's particularly exciting is that when it started to change, it changed very quickly, which I think indicates that women have been waiting in the wings for a long time and were ready to take storyteller center stage.

  Sarah Treem

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• Sometimes our significant others travel with us.

  Ketch Secor

  Sometimes, Significant Other

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Differences, Belief

  Michael Shermer (2003). “How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God”, p.271, Macmillan

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• I would like to see whoever is our next president dedicate a significant part of their inaugural address to this challenge. We have to ignite the nation's energies and passions on this to make this happen. I think we do need the same kind of inspiration we had from Kennedy in his inaugural address in 1961.

  Jay Inslee

  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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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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• When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

  Allan Hamilton

  Spiritual, Opportunity, People

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• I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Feels

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