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“The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.”

Pain Motivation Animal Amount Significant Recognition Welfare Bad Things Simplest Animal Welfare

Author:Julian Baggini

“The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.”

Way Amount Significant Currency Circulation

Author:Ben Bernanke

“As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.”

Ends Clear Progress Heard Iraq Blow Significant Operations Als Indication

Author:Christopher Bond

“We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.”

People Has Beens Numbers Saws Killing Illness Significant Could Have Been Outbreaks Sars Significant Numbers

Author:Michael C. Burgess

“Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.”

States United United States Congress Significant Ran Speakers Percentages Manufacturing

Author:Chris Chocola

“I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.”

States Purpose Culture Names Significant Purpose Of Life Tribes Descent Your Purpose In Life

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?”

People Should Children Black White Significant Black People

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.”

Sometimes Realizing Opposites Blame Significant Drifting Significant Other

Author:Dido Armstrong

“The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.”

People Courses Strong Difficult Support Progress Congress Currents Significant Administration Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Dennis Cardoza

“An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.”

Reason Character Law Strong Security Significant Alterations

Author:Juan Cole

“I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.”

Feels Art Generations Concern Significant Immortality Contribution Future Generation

Author:Judy Chicago

“Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.”

Kind Care Used Significant Reform Health Care Legislation Deficit Reconciliation Comprehensive Reduction Health Care Reform

Author:Kent Conrad

“There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.”

Way Wells Heart Body Function Bones Significant Muscles Fluid Significant Change

Author:Laurel Clark

“All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.”

Ifs Given Interest Roles Groups Standards Areas Meetings Significant Developing Experts Committees Norm Excluded Guidelines Advisory

Author:Margaret Chan

“For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.”

Long Enough Whole Force Term Danger Capacity Tragedy Significant Long Term Productive Labour Portions Unfortunate Unemployment 1930s

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.”

Meaningful Significant Memorable Colorful

Author:Joshua Foer

“Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.”

World Country Government Force Streets Products Wall Capitalism Embrace Significant Finance Thanks Taxpayers Sharia American Capitalism

Author:Frank Gaffney

“Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.”

States Company Terror Partners Significant Fund Mutual Investors Portions Pension Sponsors Portfolios Mutual Fund

Author:Frank Gaffney

“If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.”

Ifs Want Stories Kids Jobs Actors Struggle Five College Significant Hated Meant To Be Vicious

Author:Jessica Alba

“With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?”

People Done Problem Seems Film Havens Projects Areas Concern Asking Significant Documentaries Highlights Documentary Films

Author:Paul Allen

“To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.”

Should Writing Firsts Play Remember Guy Figures Aim Historical Significant Historical Figure Fawkes

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.”

Heart Choices Resources Significant Immense

Author:Steve Redhead

“Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.”

Voice Audience Rocks Stage Band Significant Spots Percentages Rock Bands

Author:David Coverdale

“The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.”

Ifs House Winning Loses White Vote Significant White House Percentages Hispanic Gop

Author:Luis Fortuno

“In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.”

Opinion Century Drama Criticism Significant Tyranny Narrative Genre Etc Twentieth Century Time Poetry

Author:Juan Goytisolo

“I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.”

Song Significant

Author:Peter Garrett

“I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.”

Years Littles Long Four Week Type Months Majors Definitions Tiny Mood Significant Cycles Swings Episodes Rapids Up And Down Bipolar Ultras Mood Swing

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.”

Children Parent Financial Aids Significant Carolina Only Child North Carolina Financial Aid

Author:Chris Hughes

“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”

Enough Political Nations Race Issues Average Significant Discussion Related Portions

Author:Eric Holder

“Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.”

World Situation Too Much Danger Significant Quantity

Author:Marvin Harris

“The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.”

People Government Three England Significant Department Participation Colony

Book:Epochs of American History

Source: Epochs of American History

“The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.”

Years Decision Clear Our Lives Events Months Shapes Significant Polaroids Significant Events

Book:Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives

Source: Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives

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