Significance Quotes - Page 28

• Then there is another area of activity - economic interaction between Russia and the United States. Right now, for example, it has already been made public that we signed a large deal to privatise one of our biggest oil and gas companies, Rosneft. We know for sure that US companies, as well as Japanese ones, by the way, are keenly interested in cooperation in Russia's oil and gas sector, in joint work. This has immense significance for world energy markets and will directly affect the whole world economy.

  Vladimir Putin

  Oil, Russia, World

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

  Richard Dawkins

  Different, Cows, Moral

  Source: inters.org

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• Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Should Have, Law

  Source: inters.org

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• I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's very easy to underrate her significance. I think she finds the Commonwealth and her position as Head of the Commonwealth infinitely more interesting than being the Queen of England, because she has no significant role in the latter.

  Bob Hawke

  Queens, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Space, Years

  Source: www.madre.org

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• I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it is a question that can be ignored once the business of asking about the worth and significance of what one is doing - one's work, one's pleasures, one's ambitions and so on - has got going. You can't at any point stop the urge to ask Tolstoy's questions, '... and then what?', 'What's the point of that?'.

  David E. Cooper

  Ambition, Thinking, Asking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• This is the best message that I have been responsibly for it. This will help you, A, find your identity. Because you can never overcome life issues. You'll never overcome your condition without knowing your position. So identity. Significance comes out of identity, meaning life's purpose, your why in life. But the great thing is this book ['You are all that'] is so practical.

  Paula White

  Book, Knowing, Issues

  Source: culteducation.com

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• If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and is comprised of official documents or recordings, then we will publish it.

  Julian Assange

  Giving, Political, Historical

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the Second World War. I was 7-13 years old during the War and did not really internalise its significance.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Years, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Isn't it really the significance of the Atonement in a person's life? Doesn't the Atonement really begin to mean something to a person when he or she is trying to face down the challenges of living, whether they be temptations or limitations?

  Lance B. Wickman

  Mean, Temptation, Challenges

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

  Charles Stross

  War, Believe, Writing

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• Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

  Marge Piercy

  Religious, Holiday, Years

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Acting, Together

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

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• That has less significance than a dog's fart.

  Mao Zedong

  Dog, Fart

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• This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary in a drama? Does it make a character boring? Does everyone agree on a character being "redeemed?" Or is it a word that is so subjective and polarizing and insignificant in modern television? It is a word that has been given, quite possibly, far too much significance, when it is truly ambiguous and meaningless in a drama. I have personally grown to loathe that word in literature.

  Michael Muhney

  Drama, Character, Doe

  Source: soaps.sheknows.com

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• A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Beautiful, Men, Illumination

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• The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.

  Jesse Jackson, Jr.

  Events, Chapters, Chronicles

  "More Obamessiah Worship Overlooked by MSM: Victory Worthy of Another Chapter in Bible". www.newsbusters.org. June 9, 2008.

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• The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Ignorance, People, Anxiety

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• The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race and therefore also personal worth and has made these the pillars of its structure. These are the most important factors of its view of life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, Views, Race

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• Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Space, Meditation, Waiting

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• To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

  Paul Rotha

  People, Directors, Cinema

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• What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.

  Billy Corgan

  Entertainment, Different, News

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

  Frank McCourt

  My Own, Insignificant

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

  Andre Dubus

  Sports, School, Self

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Past, Keys, Giving

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