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• every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

  Freya Stark

  Association, Silent, Deals

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.49, I.B.Tauris

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• Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

  Hannah Arendt

  Memories, Powerful, Reality

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Paris, Stories

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• Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Eye, Equality

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• SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

  John C. Maxwell

  Add, Values

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from May 04, 2016

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• We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

  Brandon Lee

  Real, People, Forever

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• Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

  Jane Addams

  Hands, Hull House, Humans

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

  Peter Warlock

  Modern, Music Is, Bad Music

  Peter Warlock (1998). “The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music”

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• That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

  Mick Ralphs

  Song, Writing, Twenties

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• Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

  Eugen Kogon

  Names, German History, Dachau

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• The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring,
  surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him.
  More than delivering strikes and slashes,
  and deeper in significance than the simple outwitting of an enemy, Ninpô is the way of attaining that which we need
  while making the world a better place.
  
  The skill of the Ninja is the art of winning.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Art, Winning, Simple

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• The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.

  Homaro Cantu

  Beautiful, Country, Years

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• The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Age, Constitution, Generalities

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (2009). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

  Martin Jacques

  White, Racism, Minorities

  "Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2007.

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• If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and it lands on heads each time, you can be pretty sure the coin has heads on both sides. That’s the concept behind statistical significance—it’s the odds that the correlation (or other finding) is real, that it isn’t just random chance.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Real, Odds, Land

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.40, BenBella Books

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• What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Blue, Civilization

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• The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Ideas, Mathematics

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Kindness, Philosophical, Math

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• If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

  Mao Zedong

  Practice, Study, Theory

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.155, Lulu.com

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• When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Mind, World

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• Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Mind, Sound

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• Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Divinity

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• I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Numbers, Want, Belief

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• My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.

  LeCrae

  Significant, Found, Pointing

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• ...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Party

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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