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• I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Believe, Together, Goes On

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• And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Light, Pieces, Incidents

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

  Douglas Adams

  Successful, Reason, Understood

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Eye, Intelligent

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• The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Feelings, Mind

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.

  Clive Barker

  Together, Lasts, Minutes

  "The Damnation Game". Book by Clive Barker, 1985.

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• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Laughter, Sarcasm, Discrepancies Between

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• In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

  Ron Paul

  War, Support, Hussein

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• If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confusion

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 333, 1977.

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• What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Profound, Literature

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• Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

  Herbert Read

  Progress, Literature, Intensity

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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• It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

  Herbert Read

  Literature, Firsts, Individual

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

  Edmund Husserl

  Animal, Reality, Law

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.

  Pearl Abraham

  Loyalty, Religious, Mean

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• Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There are no absolutes, there is no meaning without relationships, everything is not only interacting but interdependent. The kahunas use this idea to help give a person a powerfully secure sense of significance, while at the same time teaching him that to heal himself is to heal the world, and to heal the world is to heal himself. This is not a loss of individuality, but an understanding that individuality itself is a relationship with the environment.

  Serge King

  Spiritual, Teaching, Loss

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• It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choices

  Gautama Buddha

  Encouragement, Choices, Today

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• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Doe, World

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• That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Psychology, Impossible

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

  Johan Huizinga

  Past, History, Interpretation

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  Zoe Saldana

  Men, Facts, Intrigued

  "Zoe Saldana: I like movies that make you feel uncomfortable". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

  Jerry Falwell

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Size

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• We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Art, Past, Color

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• Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.

  Russell Kirk

  Real, Order, Doctrine

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.30, Regnery Publishing

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• The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Country, Lying, Florida

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• Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

  Lucian Freud

  Emotional, Want, Colour

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