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• Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.

  Norman Lamm

  Israel, Numbers, Cost

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• The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Ego, Feelings

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• The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

  Stephen Covey

  Learning, Involved

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• Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Cancer, Health, May

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• No one can remain neutral regarding Jesus' resurrection.
  The claim is too staggering,
  the event too earthshaking,
  the implications too significant
  and the matter too serious.
  We must either receive it or reject it as truth for us.
  To remain indifferent or undecided is to reject it.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Matter, Serious

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• I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Thinking, Iraq, Waiting

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All significant achievement results largely from perseverance.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Believe

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• Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Pain, Anger

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• We are living in a time where we just don't have enough time. People are rushed. They're over worked, over scheduled. Not enough resources. ...But the thing that I want people to understand in this campaign is that families can make small manageable changes in their lives that can have pretty significant impacts.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Impact, People

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• One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Children

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• Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, World, Divinity

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• When every action of yours is preceded by witnessing, then every move you make in this world becomes perfect and significant.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Moving, Perfect, World

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• When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.

  Peyton Manning

  Past, Years, Careers

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• You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Law, Choices, Disease

  "The Cure for the American Diet: Nutrient Density" by Joel Fuhrman, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.

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• I think that if you're doing something that's important, that's significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away.

  Miley Cyrus

  Pain, Thinking, Important

  "The Real Miley Cyrus" by Amy Larocca, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 6, 2010.

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• Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless.

  Michael Denton

  Past, Numbers, Firsts

  Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

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• Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to share our story with a significant other. For the spiritual elite, the receiving of our own story - and the knowing that it is an integral part of the larger story of All-That-Is - is enough. But for most human beings, loneliness is transcended through contact with another person.

  Marc Gafni

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Moving

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• How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.

  Edward Feser

  Philosophy, Mistake, Want

  Edward Feser (2008). “The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism”, St Augustine PressInc

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• A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

  Olivia Wilde

  Tests, Should, Hanging Out

  "Olivia Wilde Talks DRINKING BUDDIES, How Much She Drank During Filming, Working with Jake Johnson, Beer Snobbery, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

  Katharine McPhee

  Thinking, Stronger, Leaving Me

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• Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

  Aldous Huxley

  Destiny, Patterns, Chance

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Hypocrisy, Politics, Moral

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were "underwater" on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.

  Janet Yellen

  Zero, Home, Average

  Janet Yellen's Speech At the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. October 17, 2014.

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• Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.

  John M Barry

  Giving, Weakness, Overcoming

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• The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another.

  John Ramsay

  Ecosystems, Significant Change, Way

  "A former SEC director joined the dark pool from 'Flash Boys' and likened the stock market to the Death Star" by Portia Crowe, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2015.

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