Significant quotes
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Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
-- Albert Einstein -
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.
-- Alyson Stoner -
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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter -
It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
-- Anthony Powell -
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The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.
-- Ashraf Ghani -
The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
-- Ben Bernanke -
We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
-- Ben Bernanke -
There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
-- Benjamin Carson -
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I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.
-- Bob Inglis -
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
-- Carl Schmitt -
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.
-- Carroll Quigley -
God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
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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 -
Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.
-- Christina Romer -
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
-- Christy Turlington -
A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
-- Claude Bernard -
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It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
-- Clive Bell -
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
-- David Deida -
There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.
-- David Trimble -
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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 -
Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.
-- Dennis Brown -
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
-- Edward Hallett Carr -
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Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.
-- Edward Teller -
No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
-- Egon Schiele -
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
-- Eric Alterman -
The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.
-- Eric Ries -
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Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.
-- Eugene Jarecki -
Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.
-- Frank Gaffney -
I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.
-- George M. Humphrey -
In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.
-- Henri Nouwen -
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Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
-- Henrik Tikkanen -
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman -
There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman -
Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
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The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
-- Horace Bushnell -
There's no one without significant creative potential.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.
-- Hrithik Roshan -
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 -
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
-- Idries Shah -
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
-- James D. Watson -
Fighting disparities is very significant.
-- Jesse Jackson -
A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.
-- Jilly Cooper -
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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
-- Jim Harrison -
Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt,
-- Jim Rogers -
Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say,
-- Jimmy Santiago Baca -
My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
-- Jodie Foster -
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There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
-- Joe L. Wheeler -
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact...
-- John Burroughs -
It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.
-- John Dewey -
If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.
-- John Marsden -
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I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.
-- John Polkinghorne -
The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another,
-- John Ramsay -
The one significant change is in fact the second significant change
-- Jonathan Pearce -
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
-- Josh Billings -
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What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
-- Joshua Foer -
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 -
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.
-- Ken Wilber -
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The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
-- Kit Williams -
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
-- Lawrence Lessig -
My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.
-- LeCrae -
Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.
-- Madonna Kolbenschlag -
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Change your mind about something significant every day.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.
-- Marcella Hazan -
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.
-- Mark Kurlansky -
The only significant effect of continuous electronic fetal monitoring was an increase in the cesarean rate.
-- Michel Odent -
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To care for another person, in the most significant sense, is to help him grow and actualize himself.
-- Milton Mayeroff -
You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.
-- Moonlight Graham -
Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.
-- Morgan Freeman -
We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.
-- Neil Postman -
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If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.
-- Niecy Nash -
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
-- Norman Cousins -
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
-- O. J. Simpson -
Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.
-- Patricia Churchland -
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In life's most significant moments we are always alone.
-- Paulo Coelho -
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
-- Peter Garrett -
All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.
-- Peter Warlock -
We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage.
-- R. J. Reynolds -
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There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
-- Raymond Chandler -
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr -
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower.
-- Rick Falkvinge -
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Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart
-- Rob Bell -
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -
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 -
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
-- Seth Lloyd -
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The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-- Simon Van Booy -
Regardless of what you plan on when you fall in love, significant others come and go in your life. Your friends are it. My friends are my everything.
-- Sophia Bush -
I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
-- Stanley Druckenmiller -
The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.
-- Steve Redhead -
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I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.
-- Steven Pinker -
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
-- Tadao Ando -
All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs†old ways of thinking.
-- Thomas Kuhn -
Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
