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“I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.”

Thinking Has Beens Said States Hands Running Political Levels Involved Roots Campaigns Significant Grass Political Campaign Hands On Experience Significant Experiences

Author:Roy Romer

“Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.”

Has Beens Country Done Home Together Political Next Effort Steps Taken Protect Remains Terror Significant Phases Spectrum Political Spectrum

Author:Warren Rudman

“The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.”

Firsts Attention Buddhism Sexuality Significant Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.”

Thinking Humans May Ends Facts Earth Creatures Significant Someday

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“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.”

Form Fronts Originals South Significant Handle Pointing Rabbits Chariots

Author:Kit Williams

“At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.”

Ifs Giving Self Awareness Sad Self Awareness Significant Trophies Validation

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Asks Pay Percent Hundred Bills Debt Spending Significant Obligation Misunderstanding Ceilings Glass Ceiling Debt Ceiling

Author:Peter Welch

“Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.”

Littles Term Wealth Poverty Average Significant Income Acknowledge Economist Wealth And Poverty

Author:Rowan Williams

“Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.”

Home Fall Grows Share Property Significant Discounts Vacant

Author:Mark Zandi

“Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.”

Years Three Born Five Crisis Dues Significant Maturity Five Years Bullets Loan Mortgage Great Depression 1930s Foreclosure Dodging Bullets

Author:Mark Zandi

“Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.”

Made Different Matter Faces Party Leader Promise Republican Democrat Significant Significant Change Different Faces

Author:James Morcan

“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.”

Nations Threat Significant Usa Currency Domination Bitcoin Superpower

Author:Rick Falkvinge

“The complex ways in which we produce and reproduce the world in technologically developed societies involves the ways in which we separate ourselves into public and private persons, producing and consuming persons and so on, and the ways in which we as people negotiate and cope with those divisions. Stars are about all that, and are one of the most significant ways we have for making sense of it all. That is why they matter to us, and why they are worth thinking about.”

People Thinking World Way Persons Matter Stars Produce Complexes Significant Make Sense Division Consuming

Author:Richard Dyer

“Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again say that they they were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our integrity, out sanity, or even worse, our God. And can you blame them?”

Christian Spirit Given Nations Christ Born Differences Church Sin Ability Powerful Our Lives Integrity Holy Claims Blame Significant Holy Spirit Sanity Born Again Hardened Powerful Words

Author:Francis Chan

“It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.”

“Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.”

“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

“We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.”

Needs Two Walks Months Walking Ten Percent Significant Typical Bike Two Days Significant Change Changes In Society

Author:Jeff Olson

“The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.”

People Left Crime Committed Significant Regimes Minors Vietnamese Rouge Khmer Rouge

Author:James Donald

“Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith literature, which he believes, and argues, has done much damage to the message of the Quran. His work provides many thought-provoking insights and should be a significant contribution to the 'Quran only' movement in modern Islam.”

“The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.”

“Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.”

Realizing Company Nice Communication Elements Significant Engaged Officials Tape Trading Rockets Insiders Rocket Science Insider Trading

Author:Preet Bharara

“All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.”

Today Alive Written Significant Ageless

Book:The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music

Source: The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music

“Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.”

Giving Names Significant

Author:Jim Rogers

“The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.”

Matter Kids Education Teach Subjects Educational Significant Wrestling Classroom Subject Matter Great Education Great Educational Inspirational Education Inspirational Educational Free Education

Author:Meladee McCarty

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”

Significant Autumn Nostalgic Annuals Fall Autumn Autumn Leaves Cascade Autumn Love

Author:Joe L. Wheeler

“You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.”

Inspirational Firsts Today Past Steps Significant First Steps Can't Change Significant Change You Can't Change The Past Can't Change The Past

Author:Hal Elrod

“Calcification is the hardening of body tissues by calcium salts or deposits. Although calcification itself is not considered a disease, it has been shown to be a significant contributing factor in nearly every known illness and aging condition, including heart disease, kidney stones, gallstones, chronic inflammation, arthritis, cancers, cataracts, eczema, psoriasis, and even wrinkles.”

Source: Longevity Now: A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy Hormones, Detoxification, Super Immunity, Reversing Calcification, and Total Rejuvenation

“Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.”

World Long Made Science Order Walks Path Rich Materials Activity Benefits Findings Discovery Significant Substance Enterprise Ants Laboratory

Author:Bengt I. Samuelsson

“I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.”

Problem Challenges Effort Technology Talent Difficulty Climate Climate Change Solve Significant Global Warming Underestimate

Author:Federico Pena

“Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.”

Form Artist Theory Significant

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.”

Should Believe Reason Done Stories Beautiful Religion Modern Creation Theory Evolution Accounts Significant Torture Conformity Biblical Genesis Symbolism Theory Of Evolution

Author:Will Durant

“Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.”

Thinking Way Humans Has Beens Matter Enough Pain Joy Humanity Force Causes Human Beings Draws Happenings Connections Significant Joy Happiness Enough Pain

Book:Recovering: A Journal

Source: Recovering: A Journal

“One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.”

Important Order Principles Design Significant Unimportant

Book:Design: Dieter Rams &

Source: Design: Dieter Rams &

“We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.”

Giving Important Purpose Dies Born Our Lives Conditions Definitions Refuse Significant Realms Cowardice Adrift

Author:Joseph Epstein

“Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.”

Thinking Way Seeing Evolution Computer Significant Application Engines Robust Computer Systems

Author:Vinton Cerf

“In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.”

World Sometimes Names Violence Duty Messages Hatred Significant Vengeance Timely

Author:Pope John Paul II

“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.”

Form Design Expression Aim Significant Mediums Brushes Observers Diversion Mannerisms

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.”

Form Color Shapes Significant Combination Colour Mixing

Author:Clive Bell

“Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.”

Trying Self Violence Society Self Esteem Deeds Significant Esteem Our Society

Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.”

Humans May Spirit Mere Seeking Significant March Occupation Quests Human Spirit Collecting Collectors Humanistic Assembling

Author:Arthur Davison Ficke

“After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.”

People Years Work Novel Plant Significant Teeth Fifty Assembly Fixing Significant Things

Author:Thomas McGuane

“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.”

Way Long Art Novel Taste Standards Art Is Innovation Critics Conviction Significant One Way Firm Provocation Standards Set

Author:Leo Steinberg

“Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities.”

Mind United Possibility Expression Unity Silent Significant Assembly Integrated Dynamism

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”

“There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.”

Looks Stills Areas Significant Statements Gaps Disagreement

Author:David Trimble

“A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.”

Men Firsts Glad Significant Minorities Senior Companionship

Author:Stephanie Coontz

“This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities.”

World Company Steps Class Strategy Significant Our World Capability Our Relationship Alliances Service To Others World Class

Author:Steve Fisher

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