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• In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Doe, Minorities

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• God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

  J. I. Packer

  Book, Character, Scripture

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• The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Love Is, Law

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1940). “Why the Christian Church is Not Pacifist”

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• [Sundance] still feels significant. I don't think you can help but come here and not feel that sense of history and its significance in influencing film. And I think it still does. Some of that is based on history, but it's also based on really incredible programmers who are showcasing such an incredible variety of cinema.

  Elijah Wood

  Thinking, Doe, Cinema

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.

  Josef Pieper

  Sensual, Patents, States

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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• Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Long, Giving, Vitality

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, Vanity, Order

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Effort, Acting

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.384, Harper Collins

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• I think, questions about what it means to respect nature become very important because just as in human society, for example, part of what it is for me to live a good life as a human being in a human society is to have respect for others around me. Now, that respect, to some extent, can be thought of as being grounded in the rights and interest of others but it also has to do with the stance that I take in the world and what it is that provides meaning and significance in my own life and I think there are similar ideas of respect for nature that apply as well.

  Dale Jamieson

  Good Life, Mean, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that enable objects to have significance and salience - as hammers, pots, trees or whatever.

  David E. Cooper

  Tree, Engagement, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Trying, Agents

  Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.56, Pluto Press

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• The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Communication, Reality

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• Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.

  John Wooden

  Pay The Price, Achieve, Willing

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• The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Expression, History, Effort

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• That she bear children is not a woman's significance.
  But that she bear herself,
  that is her supreme and risky fate.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Fate, Bears

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7681, Delphi Classics

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• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, People, Wish

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• You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Sacrifice, Simple, Joy

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• Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.

  J. M. E. McTaggart

  Death, Sleep, Progress

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• All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may not be seen (except afterwards, by historians) until the last great step. In many cases the full potentiality and force of a most radical step in such a sequence of transformations may not even be manifest to its author.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Science, May, Lasts

  I. Bernard Cohen (1983). “The Newtonian Revolution”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Matter

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.16, SCM Press

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• If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.

  Paulo Freire

  People, World, Way

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one’s progress on the spiritual path and renew one’s determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, New Year, Determination

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• I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Art, Reality

  "Leonard Cohen at 80". Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.

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• If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

  Anton Chekhov

  Believe, Order, Leaving

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others”, p.2440, e-artnow

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• The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Eye, Age, Fifteen

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1916). “Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children”

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