Quotes with significance

  • Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
  • The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

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  • Vaclav Havel Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Pablo Casals I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Susan Sontag Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Henry Miller Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Dr. James C. Dobson Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
    Dr. James C. Dobson
    American evangelical Christian author
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Albert Einstein Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Haslam If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Andrew Grove Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Olson Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Of what significance are the things you can forget.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Barry Sanders The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • James Baldwin The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bernard Devoto The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Alan Cranston There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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