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“Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically argue - and when it does, it's deadly dull. But literature can supply the frame within which we come to observe and reason, or it can change our frame in highly significant ways. That's one of the achievements I'd claim for Mann, and for Death in Venice.”

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Author:Philip Kitcher

“I never wanted it to get to this point. I had hoped that, by its own course, by the way the media covers politics, people would open their eyes and see who Donald Trump really is. But that, unfortunately, has not happened. The polls in the early states indicate that he's been able to fool a significant number of people into believing that he is something that he is not.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“I think that the most significant, guiding principle was that we wanted to return to a three-piece live form, whereas we became a four-piece for the last record because the songs had more extensive arrangements and we needed a keyboard player to pull off a lot of those songs. We missed the energy, and more push-and-pull of the three-piece.”

Thinking Wanted Lasts Form Song Three Energy Principles Records Pieces Four Player Return Needed Significant Arrangements Keyboards Guiding Principles Keyboard Players

Author:Chris Cain

“I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.”

People Thinking World Numbers Fit Competition Significant Significant Numbers

Author:Paul Lansky

“I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of reality, and furthermore that we all rely to a significant extent on the idea that models which provide elegant, simple and satisfying explanations are more likely to be true.”

Thinking Ideas Reality Simple Models Scientist Philosopher Significant Being True Developing Explanation Rely Exploration Satisfying Metaphysical Elegant

Author:L.A. Paul

“If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know what has been achieved and what future developments are promising and the reflective judgments of representatives of different groups who can identify what kinds of information are most urgently needed.”

Ifs Knows Needs Kind Has Beens Different Views Groups Information Development Needed Judgment Scientist Significant Appropriate Representatives Future Development

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Donald Trump came along and spoke in a language that speaks directly to a portion of the Republican base with what they want to hear. I don`t think that he actually has a very significant ideology.”

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Author:Ben Domenech

“Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.”

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Author:Kevin Allen

“Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.”

People Ifs Writing Book Opinion Written Streets Clouds Significant San Francisco Duncan

Author:Stephen Vincent Benet

“Once you move in with your significant other, you have to become a combination of each other.”

Moving Significant Combination Significant Other

Author:Chaz Bundick

“I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.”

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Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever was not significant until the development of a male-dominated medical establishment made possible the situation in which a professional might move from touching a corpse (for the purposes of study) to putting his unwashed hands up against, or into, a woman in labor.”

“Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.”

“I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change.”

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Author:Christy Clark

“Whenever there's a nude scene, it's always uneasy. You're not in the comfort of your own home with your significant other.”

Home Comfort Scene Significant Uneasy Significant Other

Author:Laura Prepon

“Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.”

Doubt Position Significant No Doubt American Society

Author:Frank Luntz

“The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.”

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Book:Making Choices

Source: Making Choices

“[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.”

Knows Feels Ideas Sometimes Matter Facts Science Simple Example Weakness Universal Extraordinary Significant Aliens Statistics Biographies Collecting

Book:The life and work of Sigmund Freud

Source: The life and work of Sigmund Freud

“...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates.”

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Author:Kenneth W. Royce

“What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claim on one who had hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences of the hurt. How can we do that? It's done at the price of beating back our pride. By nature we are selfish. Forgiving, by definition, is unselfish. Being hurt by another person wounds our pride. Pride stands in the way of forgiving. We cannot forgive without God's help. It might be possible for us to forgive something inconsequential without God's help; but in significant matters, we are unlikely to accomplish anything without God's involvement in the process.”

“I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.”

World Beautiful Birth Mouths Significant Flirtation

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.”

Stills Past Mystery Events Significant Origin Of Life Significant Events

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.”

Ifs Mean Two Ends Loses Party Trump Significant Gop

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“How could someone with a renowned ability to inspire, communicate complex ideas, and connect with voters find himself in this position? The President [Barack Obama], though a dedicated student of history, has seemingly failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations: They've required single-minded determination, and the willingness to battle until the fight was won.”

“I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean there are people in some freakin' significant places making on-the-ground social front line change. I've marched. I've put feet on the ground for what I believe and what I'm against with no compromise. And there are people who are risking a whole hell of a lot more than me to make change, that's for damn sure.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Mean Whole Kids I Believe Social Lines Hell Feet Fronts Significant Compromise Damn Feet On The Ground No Compromise

Author:Ben Harper

“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

“And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.”

“But one thing that we have done in the last four years is we have really put pressure on the leadership of this organization [Al Qaeda]. We have killed a significant number of leaders. We've captured others. Those that remain have to look over their shoulders, they have to be on the run. So that even if we don't manage to kill or capture them all within four years, what we do do is put the kind of pressure on them that makes them focus on their own skins, as opposed to carrying out attacks.”

“I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.”

Thinking Firsts Moments Significant Significant Moments

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.”

Real Ends Able Fashion Mark Customers Significant Selling Brands Retail Real Women

Author:Sarah Lafleur

“In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very significant. It's held in place by journalists who are constantly looking for hooks and sound bites to keep them from having to make the effort of a deeper understanding and a more profound level of communication with the public.”

“Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.”

World Believe Kind Important Real Choices Courses Bits Significant Liberation Recognizing Mothering Significant Things

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The part that the public sees is the arguments up at the podium and the briefs that we file. But a significant part of the job - in fact, I'd say I spend more of my time on this part of the job, which is deciding what the position of the United States will be in the cases that we're going to be participating in before the court.”

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Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.”

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Author:Paul Kagame

“We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.”

Needs Views Roles Bigger Significant Parliament Demos

Author:David Cameron

“Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.”

People Want Social Hurt Husband Structure Significant Upset Social Structure

Author:Erica Jong

“Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.”

“This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.”

May Lasts Three Judging Vote Decades Significant Senate Nominations

Author:Joe Biden

“The truth of the matter is there is significant debate among judicial scholars today as to whether or not we've gone off on the wrong path with regard to Supreme Court decisions.”

Matter Today Decision Gone Path Regard Court Debate Supreme Significant Scholar Supreme Court Judicial Wrong Path Court Decision

Author:Joe Biden

“The good news is that we've seen in recent years significant reductions in the cost of solar panels and wind production. We know how significant an impact we can have by moving towards energy efficiency and transforming our transportation system. So we know what has to be done. We have to develop the political will to do it, and, as president, this would be an issue of huge concern to me.”

“The practice of yoga allows us to become more conscious of our own physical existence and how significant we really are.”

Existence Practice Conscious Yoga Significant

Author:Sharon Gannon

“I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered.”

Thinking Knows Hard Enough My Own Subjects Havens Percent Folks Population Significant I've Learned Unhappiness Leap Staggering Fallouts

Author:Keith Murray

“As President, my father will change the labor laws that were put into place at a time when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. And he will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all.”

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Author:Ivanka Trump

“While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro).”

“You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.”

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Author:Daniel Libeskind

“[Donald Trump] is talked about enormous loss that we've had in this country by allowing radical Islamic extremists to run rampant without having a coherent plan for how to destroy them, not just to contain them, but to destroy them. And the implications of that for all families who are losing service members is significant.”

Country Running Loss Plans Trump Members Losing Significant Enormous Radical Islamic Allowing Implications Extremist Islamic Extremists

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I'm very inspired by personal transformation. I'm so inspired when people who have been living with or struggling against significant obstacles break through and reach the other side of that challenge victoriously.”

People Has Beens Sides Challenges Break Struggle Transformation Inspired Obstacles Significant Break Through Personal Transformation Very Inspired

Author:Edwina Findley

“Family reunification has been an essential aspect of these policies.Many of those who are brought in, in terms of families, have become actively involved. They open small stores, play a significant role in the economy. The families and the importance of family unity are extremely important.”

Has Beens Important Play Term Roles Economy Policy Involved Essentials Aspect Importance Unity Stores Significant Importance Of Family Reunification

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Of course, the UK is a significant economy that makes up a quarter of American exports to the EU, more than 50 percent of our exports in certain sectors and over 25 percent of the government procurement opportunities we have in Europe. Brexit reduces the size of the TTIP deal for the United States, and there will need to be an adjustment of expectations accordingly, but Brexit underscores the value of reaching an agreement at this critical moment in the evolution of Europe.”

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