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• It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Understanding, Tragedy

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• Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

  Michael Shermer

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Struggle

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• The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.

  William Tyndale

  Spiritual, Teacher, Air

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• The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

  Rob Bell

  Weight, Maintaining, Fairness

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• This is of monumental significance. The gift has been given - what we make of it is up to us. Unless we listen to counsel we will receive none. Unless we pray, exercise faith, love, obey, and keep the tabernacles of our spirits clean - we can have no claim upon this unspeakable gift. May we so live as to have the guidance of the Holy Spirit to help us make wise decisions.

  F. Burton Howard

  Wise, Exercise, Decision

  F. Burton Howard (1992). “You Can Go Home Again”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Book, Artist

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.15, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

  Charlie Haden

  World, Importance

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• We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Party, Cutting, Agreement

  "Science and Linguistics" (1946)

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• But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

  Rowan Atkinson

  People, Arrogance, Church

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• The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like “What is the significance in the world? How might this change things?

  Steve Hayden

  World, Might, Speed

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• To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

  Frederic Manning

  Punishment, Missing, Half

  Frederic Manning (2007). “The Middle Parts of Fortune Somme and Ancre”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

  Marlon Brando

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dedication

  FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from May 09, 2014

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• Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Dream, Kings, Rights

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• Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Mistake, Passion, Sight

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• If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like
  prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There
  is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of
  this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we
  have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

  William Lane Craig

  Atheist, Mean, Men

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

  William Lane Craig

  Real, Men, Order

  William Lane Craig (2015). “On Guard for Students: A Thinker's Guide to the Christian Faith”, p.24, David C Cook

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• The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

  Umberto Eco

  Gains, Ambiguous, Elusive

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• Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.

  Robert Greene

  Reality, Emotional, Should Have

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.290, Profile Books

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• Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.

  Stefan Zweig

  Greatness, Thinking, Decision

  Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig (1977). “A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

  Tony Robbins

  Two, Majority, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.

  John French Sloan

  Artist, May, Firsts

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• The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my life; they made me want to be a historian of Wales and of the world.

  Kenneth O. Morgan

  Book, World, Want

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• The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.

  Esther Earl

  Good Friend, Self, Giving

  Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Law, Design, Doubt

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.383, CUP Archive

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• Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Past, Fool, Ownership

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