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“Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves”

Knows Should Ability Serious Victory Ultimate Defeat Metaphor Accomplish Significant Opponents Combat Jiu Jitsu

Author:Rorion Gracie

“Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.”

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.”

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Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.”

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Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA.”

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Author:Paul Stamets

“Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.”

People War Sometimes Reason Asks Causes Danger Serious Nuclear Significant Factors Ask Me Nuclear War

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's going on. But we also need people on the streets pounding the pavement to make a significant and dramatic appearance to suggest that what's going on here is unacceptable.”

People Knows Needs Social Consciousness Streets Media Serious Internet Appearance Social Media Spread Significant Dramatic Pavement

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be part of the solution. Other major changes are necessary.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more. They've just discovered a significant violation of the German Constitution that had been concealed from the Parliament.”

Country Action Serious Constitution Significant Germany Discovering Other Countries Inquiry Parliament Violation Concealed

Author:Edward Snowden

“Critics, often for good reason, are concerned that the Fed is wielding its vast powers in the interests of the banks and not in the interests of the people. After the financial crisis, Americans have perceived that the banks have been bailed out, but a significant proportion of the population is still in serious economic trouble.”

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Author:Gerald Epstein