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• I am for decriminalization. The significant aspect of that is that we don't force prostitutes to have to get a license to work. I think the whole idea of licensing consensual sex between adults is offensive.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.

  Chris Lehane

  Successful, People, Expectations

  "Crisis PR Expert: BP Disaster is 'Unspinnable'". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 3, 2010.

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• I would like to see whoever is our next president dedicate a significant part of their inaugural address to this challenge. We have to ignite the nation's energies and passions on this to make this happen. I think we do need the same kind of inspiration we had from Kennedy in his inaugural address in 1961.

  Jay Inslee

  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger? How strong will they get as a result of warming? Those are still immersed in complexity. So in those realms that catch people's attention most, or that get used as symbols by environmental campaigners, those facets really do come with significant back-and-forthing.

  Andrew Revkin

  Strong, Sea, People

  "Q&A: Andrew C. Revkin". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

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• In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.

  Cris Mazza

  Girl, College, Special

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• What's culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn't grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.

  Tom Anderson

  Growing Up, People, Age

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.

  Jim Woodring

  Book, Writing, Significant Things

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• It's significant that four out of the five nominated comedies were run by women. That's not by accident. Women are storytellers, too. What's particularly exciting is that when it started to change, it changed very quickly, which I think indicates that women have been waiting in the wings for a long time and were ready to take storyteller center stage.

  Sarah Treem

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Struggle, Thinking, Ideas

  Vera John-Steiner (2006). “Creative Collaboration”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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• We know that expanded access to natural gas is important to families and businesses in communities across Ontario. That's why our government is developing new natural gas programs to improve access, which will generate economic activity, attract significant investment, create jobs, and break down barriers in our communities

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Government, Community

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• While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Teacher, Teaching, Wheels

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• Despite a lingering low inventory and increasing prices, consumers still have the confidence to purchase a home. More and more people recognize the many opportunities in this market and the significant value of low interest rates. As job creation and wages continue to improve, many more first-time buyers are now making the decision to become homeowners.

  Dave Liniger

  Jobs, Home, Opportunity

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• The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Ideas, Discovery

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• Consensus and dialogue have always played a significant role, especially in Danish society. Of course there are basic values that must be respected, but within this framework, we are a liberal and tolerant country where everyone can live as they desire and according to their tradition. That is the Danish way.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Desire, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I want to see everyone contribute to the overall costs of the system, and with their entire earnings. I'm convinced that an objective discussion will reveal that the differences between the parties, which have been greatly exaggerated in some quarters, aren't that significant after all.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Differences, Cost

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• A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

  Karl E. Weick

  Winning, Opportunity, Opponents

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• There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Differences, Belief

  Michael Shermer (2003). “How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God”, p.271, Macmillan

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• The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Wise, Reality, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.

  Kitty Ferguson

  Body, Proportion, Evidence

  Kitty Ferguson (1994). “The Fire in the Equations”

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• If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction.

  Richard Driehaus

  Moving, News, Ifs

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• Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

  Vince Cable

  Significant Change, Fundamentals, Unlikely

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• The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

  Janet Yellen

  Past, Gains, Majority

  "RPT-UPDATE 2-Citing U.S. values, Yellen says greatly concerned by rise in economic inequality". www.reuters.com. October 17, 2014.

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• The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.

  George Inness

  Art, Mistake, Men

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• Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.

  Minor White

  Intuition, Mind, Trying

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• To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Goal, Comfort, Zone

  Hyrum W. Smith (2008). “10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management”, p.5, Hachette UK

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