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• I think what the American people are going to see down the road is significant inflationary pressure as a result of all this government printed, you know, this new money that the government is putting in.

  Bob Barr

  Thinking, Government, People

  "Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr Discusses Economic Crisis". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 20, 2008.

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• The universe and everything in it will someday pass away and be made new by the Creator. Therefore, the events of today that seem so important are not really very significant, except for those matters that will survive the end of the universe.

  James Dobson

  Important, Passing Away, Matter

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• Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Political, Way

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• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Dust, Order

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• Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Jobs, Believe, Cutting

  "Studies challenge wisdom of GOP candidates' plans". www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• I think governments are quietly terrified. There's massive unemployment, a recession they don't know how to deal with, and the measures they've taken are not working yet, and maybe they're not going to work. There's a prospect of significant social disorder.

  Simon Critchley

  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses of appetite or from individual indifference to great principles or institutions. Any significant unraveling of the moral fiber of the American people, therefore, finally imperils the Constitution.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Moral Fiber, People, Political

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• Innovation is significant positive change.

  Scott Berkun

  Innovation, Positive Change

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• "Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.

  Jack Williamson

  Mean, Past, Ideas

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• The show definitely has a romantic construct, and that's a genre that I've never had access to, in a significant way. This interesting for me to see, as an Asian guy, just standing back. I just wanted to break my way into a different genre. I was tickled that it was offered to me.

  John Cho

  Interesting, Guy, Asian

  Source: collider.com

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• Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.

  Tom Vilsack

  Struggle, People, Weight

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• Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Believe, Pride, Destiny

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• Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Teacher, Children

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• It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.

  Roger Kimball

  Attitude, Practice, Perfection

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• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Ideas, Numbers, People

  "Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 28, 2010.

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• There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There's a big difference between knowing and doing. It's not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it's how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you're right, your future will be dim.

  Phil McGraw

  Two, Differences, Knowing

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• If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

  Peter Senge

  Real, Leader, Innovation

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• The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Art, Doors, Use

  Sri Aurobindo (1999). “The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development”, p.175, Lotus Press

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• If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Winning, Men, Nominations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

  Peter McWilliams

  Gambling, Drug, Would Be

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Laughter, Doctors, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

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• God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

  Michael Dowd

  Reality, Missing, Sacred

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• Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.

  Ziggy Marley

  Father, Taken, People

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I want to ask you to place a significant seed in God's soil and see it work for you. Just as a special sacrifice was offered on the Day of Atonement, let me ask you to bring a very special offering.

  Benny Hinn

  Sacrifice, Offering, Special

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• I don't think the human effect [of climate change] is significant compared to the natural effect.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Thinking, Climate, Natural

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