Significant Quotes - Page 37

• It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

  Mao Zedong

  Bourgeoisie, Good Things, China

  Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works: The period of the socialist revolution and socialist construction. (I)”

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• On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stars, Men, Space

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• In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

  Hugh Hefner

  Fun, Social, Process

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• The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful...the pack provides very clear guidelines...overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.

  Linda Armstrong

  Assessment, Practice, Analysis

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• Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation between low and high performers, the actual cash increase is insufficient to sustain performance – or it drives the wrong behaviors. … Effective management is a system, not a pay plan. The mistake is that companies try to solve all their problems with pay.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Mistake, Trying, Typical

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• Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow.

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Men, Long

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.137, Bantam

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• Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Adults, Cinema, Our Society

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• As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Significant Things

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• From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Emotional, Feelings, Mind

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• It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Writing, Character, Voice

  "The Story of a Strong Woman in a Patriarchal Country: Nell Freudenberger's The Newlyweds". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. June 22, 2012.

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• There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

  Josh Billings

  Latin, Wit, Caution

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• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Communication, Dark, Light

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Thinking, Government, Support

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• Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment options. The trick is to GET to the long term. Think in terms of 5 years, 10 years and longer. Do your planning and asset allocation ahead of time. Choose a portion of your assets to invest in the stock market - and stick with it! Yes, the bad times will come, but over the truly long term, the good times will win out - and I hope the lessons from 2008 will help get you there to enjoy them.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Attitude, Expression

  Mark Twain (1876). “Mississippi Writings”, p.488, Library of America

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• The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

  Saul Bellow

  Dream, Heart, Men

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• At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

  Isaac Asimov

  Two, Hydrogen Atom, Space

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• Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Light, Doors

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• As IT enters the mobile-cloud era, IT providers need to be more innovative about addressing customers' fast changing needs. Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market. Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Past, Clouds, Years

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• When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

  Dwight Edwards

  Opportunity, Essentials, Appearance

  Dwight Edwards (2013). “Releasing the Rivers Within: The Exhilaration of Utter Dependence on God”, p.104, WaterBrook

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• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, May, Clique

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Book, Men

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• I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

  Tracy Chapman

  Opportunity, Thinking, Significant Change

  "Tracy Chapman Comes Out of Her Shell / Publicity-shy singer-songwriter wants people to hear 'Telling Stories'" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. April 16, 2000.

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• To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fighting, Reality, Overcoming

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