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• When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?

  Jehan Sadat

  Graduation, War, Men

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• I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results

  Milton Friedman

  Independent, Political, Important

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• Over the past 7 years, we've tried to modernize the economy, and today what we're doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.

  William J. Clinton

  Law, Today, Financial

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999".

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• Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community, unfortunately, has done little to dispel. Happenstance usually plays a part, to be sure, but there is much more to invention than the popular notion of a bolt out of the blue. Knowledge in depth and in breadth are virtual prerequisites. Unless the mind is thoroughly charge beforehand, the proverbial spark of genius, if it should manifest itself, probably will find nothing to ignite.

  Paul Flory

  Blue, Views, Play

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• Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me.

  Henning Mankell

  Wise, Lying, Rain

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 09, 2012

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• We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

  Ben Bernanke

  Financial, Economy, Financial System

  "The Subprime Mortgage Market". Ben S. Bernanke's speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s 43rd Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition in Chicago, Illinois, www.federalreserve.gov. May 17, 2007.

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• Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

  Peabo Bryson

  Events, Kind, Life Is

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• We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Foundation

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• I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Decision, Intuition, Computer

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• Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

  Ken Wilber

  Fundamentals, Physics

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

  Cyril Connolly

  Believe, Beer, Over You

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• I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

  Scott Ritter

  Issues, Modern, American History

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• I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

  Robert Plant

  Dog, Men, Black

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• I learned a long time ago that at the end of the day, the only stat that counts is points, The other ones are significant, but I'd much rather have the right score on the board. At the end of the day, that's what we're worried about.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Long, The End Of The Day, Boards

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• There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mistake, Errors, Russia

  "Zerkalo", www.russialist.org. December 29, 2001.

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• As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.

  John Engler

  Country, School, Numbers

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• Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

  Gina McCarthy

  Climate, Environment, Pollution

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• A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Choices, Design, Landscape

  Nan Fairbrother (1974). “The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Thinking, Want, Matter

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.

  Peter Bart

  Years, Two, Next

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• History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

  Idries Shah

  People, Happened

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.9, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever it's called. And that's only when I'm having an off day.

  Zach Braff

  Book, Thinking, Use

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• We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.

  Rob Delaney

  Years, Space, People

  Rob Delaney (2013). “Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

  David W. Oxtoby

  Teaching, College, Faculty Members

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• A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

  Bill Bryson

  Georgia, Kind, Wonder

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.145, Random House

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