Significant Quotes - Page 38

• There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

  Max Baucus

  Past, Rights, Abuse

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• Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

  Derek Bok

  Differences, Choices, Different

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• I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

  Steve Largent

  Football, Jobs, Player

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• Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life Lesson, School, Hair

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• If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

  M. Scott Peck

  Meaningful, Sex, Children

  M. Scott Peck (2003). “The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, Touchstone

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• The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

  J. P. Guilford

  Ideas, Numbers, Chance

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• We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Money, Moving

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• A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Long Ago, Males

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• This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or [to] seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another hundred years. But if we end up going the life route instead of the death route, then in a distant future our cosmos will be teaming with life, all of which can be traced back to what we do-here and now. I don't know how we'll be thought of, but I'm sure that we won't be remembered as insignificant.

  Max Tegmark

  Moon, Technology, Self

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• I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

  Richard Rohr

  Men, Differences, Style

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

  Edward Weston

  Home, Extraordinary Beauty, Curves

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• The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Society, Literature

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.65, Grove Press

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• We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Queens, Past, Years

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

  F. R. Leavis

  Novelists, Fiction, Tradition

  'The Great Tradition' (1948) ch. 1

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• The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Differences, Riders

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• I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

  David Puttnam

  Soul, Cinema, Problem

  "A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

  Julian Baggini

  Pain, Motivation, Animal

  "Be pragmatic, not obsessive" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 05, 2009.

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• The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.

  Ben Bernanke

  Way, Currency, Circulation

  "Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Take On The Economy". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 3, 2010.

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• As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.

  Christopher Bond

  Blow, Iraq, Progress

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• We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Numbers, People, Saws

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• Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

  Chris Chocola

  United States, Congress, Percentages

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• I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Names, Culture, Purpose

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• It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Children, White, People

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

  Dido Armstrong

  Opposites, Blame, Sometimes

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• The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Strong, People, Support

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