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• The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Significant Change, Safety

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• ... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.

  Hannah Arendt

  Religious, Loss, Afterlife

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Science, Views

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.273, Univ of California Press

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• Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mean, History, Done

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• There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.

  Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

  Science, Differences, Bacteria

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• There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

  Joel Hunter

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Joel C. Hunter (2011). “New Kind of Conservative (Large Print 16pt)”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Fashion, Religious

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

  Carter Heyward

  Church, Action, Dramatic

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• Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.

  Ted Cruz

  Leadership, Party, Fighting

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• The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Money, Determination, Men

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• Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.

  Herbert Read

  Wise, Art, Fall

  Herbert Read (2002). “To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society”, p.28, Psychology Press

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• If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

  Lindsey Graham

  Heart, Civilization, Pyramids

  "State of the Union" With Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. February 13, 2011.

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• 'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

  Tobin Bell

  Thinking, Interesting, People

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• The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.

  William Morris Davis

  Book, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Mean

  News Conference on Iran Deal, edition.cnn.com. July 15, 2015.

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• I think your significant other should be way more important than your work. Personally, I love working. I don't know that I'd say I'm a workaholic because I also love maxing and relaxing.

  Kristen Bell

  Thinking, Important, Way

  "Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel Interview WHEN IN ROME". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 27, 2010.

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• Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Lying, Eye, Hair

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

  Allan Hamilton

  Spiritual, Opportunity, People

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• Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

  Kendall Schmidt

  Eye, Connections, Looks

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• One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Thinking, Alive, World

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• Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

  Morgan Freeman

  Seven, Find Me, Amount

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• Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

  Winston Churchill

  Tired, People, Made

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• We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Volcanoes, Eggs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin

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• I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Clouds, Expression

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• By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Book, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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