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“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.”

Kind Ability Attention Influence Special Events Authority Presidential Obsessed Significance Pardon Perks Pardon Me

Author:Barbara Olson

“A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.”

May Doe Two Science Term Lines Events Evolution Aspect Historical Significance Translate Organisms Suggestions Precision Analytics Living Organisms

Author:Gavin de Beer

“An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.”

May Long Happens Events Chains Significance Overwhelming Colossal

Book:100%: The Story of a Patriot

Source: 100%: The Story of a Patriot

“Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.”

“Intentional living is the bridge to significance. At the end of every year, I take time out to reflect and evaluate the events of the previous year - what went well and what needed improvement. From that inventory, I lay out my next year - how I intend to live, make the best use of time and maximize adding value to others. Success asks, 'How can I add value to myself?' Significance asks, 'How can I add value to others?' It is your intention that lends itself to significance.”

Years Wells Ends Use Values Next Asks Events Needed Lays Add Intention Improvement Bridges Significance Take Time Next Year Evaluate Inventory Use Of Time Adding Value Previous Years

Author:John C. Maxwell

“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.”

“To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?”

Should May Stills History Written Events Circumstances Hot Raises Lists Smoking Significance Publishers Enterprising

Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays

Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays

“What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating.”

Happens Eye Names Memories Events Labor Sight Forgotten Faithful Significance Print Fades Doomed Fading Being Faithful Polaroids

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.”

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Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

“The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.”

Events Extraordinary Significance Chapters Chronicles

Author:Jesse Jackson, Jr.

“A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.”

“There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.”

People Thinking Giving Important Seems Faces Values Events Emotional Amount Sorry Contrary Significance Pun Face Value

Author:Antonio Damasio