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“What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.”

Source: Art For Dummies

“The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.”

Pain Suffering Common Expression Elements Significant Vans Pollock Frida

Author:Billy Cannon

“When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.”

Self Play Bigs Able Waiting Rooms Deals Gay Athlete Significant Coming Out True Self Compelled Big Deal Teammate Tabloids Significant Other Authentic Life Pro Athlete

Author:Jason Collins

“Teams use trust as currency. If it is in short supply, then the team is poor. If trust abounds, the members of the team have purchase power with each other to access each others’ gifts, talents, energy, creativity, and love. The development of trust then becomes a significant leadership strategy. Trust creates the load limits on the relationship bridges among team members”

Ifs Use Energy Poor Creativity Team Talent Development Limits Members And Love Strategy Access Significant Bridges Load Currency Team Member

Author:Reggie McNeal

“One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that the policy of our Government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.”

Way Believe Has Beens States Reason Government America Spiritual Asks I Believe United United States Doors Policy Demand Pressure Strikes Terrorist Significant United States Of America

Author:James Inhofe

“Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.”

Facts Objects Significant Yield Scrutiny

Book:The summit of the years

Source: The summit of the years

“It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.”

Wells Problem Half Significant Familiar

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938

“Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things the job, the house, the this, the that do not really fill the place inside.”

Kind Jobs House Walking Significant Monument Inner Life

Book:Conversations with Robertson Davies

Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies

“The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .”

Self Universe Individual Fate Anxiety Significant Representation Affirmation Self Affirmation

Book:The Courage To Be

Source: The Courage To Be

“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”

Humans Wells Two Character Might Human Beings Accepting Class Mankind Offers Negative Instinct Active Significant Host Guests Passive Hospitality

Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.”

“I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.”

Facts Reality Political Bits Situation Significant Dialogue Observation Buried Trifles Overlooked

Book:The Best of I.F. Stone

Source: The Best of I.F. Stone

“This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.”

Firsts Play Together Lasts Artist Levels Numbers Musician Significant Last Time Cds Legendary

Author:Gloria Estefan

“The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.”

“Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.”

Mind Sometimes Silence Noble Significant Occasions Sublime Silence Is Eloquence Indication Expressive Great Minds

Book:Tatler and Guardian

Source: Tatler and Guardian

“[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.”

Long Body Life Is Emotion Movement Significant Pleasant Long Ago Unreality Bali

Book:Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.”

Heart Reason Earth Lasts Humanity Loses Results Taken Groups Influence Significant Resistance Bitter Technological Resisting Exaggerated Amazement Stitches Technological Change

Author:Isaac Asimov

“What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.”

People Ifs Want Important Difficult Understanding Special Subjects Overcoming Difficulty Obvious Intellect Significant Instruction Contrast

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mind May Influence Significant Significant Things

Author:Albert J. Nock

“Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.”

Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Politics Strong Freedom Liberty Power Democracy Movement Mass Significant Socialism Strongest Revolt Inertia Democracy Freedom

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality. In fact, both are always present, but in individual cases the one or the other may be more pronounced.”

Source: Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958

“As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being taken seriously even within the scientific community. An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual aims and religious beliefs.”

“Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.”

Want May Persons Long Sometimes States Law Lovers Married Quitting Significant Grants Contracts Portions Doomed Unmarried Bad Relationship Marriage Contract

Book:Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage

Source: Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage

“A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.”

Humans Happens Consciousness Fundamentals Improvement Significant Hopeful Human Consciousness

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.”

Ifs Men Enough Care Turns Numbers Company Effects Safe Safety Profession Significant Discrimination Employers Hiring Harassment Lawsuit Quota Large Companies Significant Numbers

Author:Warren Farrell

“We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.”

Political Process Towns Significant Dimensions Squares

Author:Russ Feingold

“I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.”

People Humans Ends Country Together Military Solutions Majority Significant Syria Intervention Saying No Military Intervention

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.”

World Needs Different Social Religious Space Common Existence Groups Conflict Agree Significant Contribution Canada Governance Harmonious Dissension Social Groups Agree Upon

Author:Aga Khan IV

“The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.”

Dies Process Civilization Significant Abstract Entity Reborn

Author:Carroll Quigley

“No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.”

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.”

People Able Turns Principles Century Design Theory Revolution Proud Periods Computer Worthy Significant Developing Looking Back Interfaces Footnotes

Author:Jef Raskin

“While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. This figure takes into account the destruction or dismantling of every major factory associated with prohibited weapons manufacture, all significant items of production equipment, and the majority of the weapons and agent produced by Iraq.”

Able Levels Figures Majors Weapons Percent Destruction Accounts Majority Iraq Productions Significant Agents Certainty Factories Disposition Equipment Items Disarmament Weaponry

Author:Scott Ritter

“The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.”

Wanted Purpose Clear Periods Significant Time Periods

Author:Rick Warren

“The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.”

Years Lasts Fashion Position Authority Significant Balanced Judaism Moderates

Author:Ovadia Yosef

“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.”

“People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.”

“It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.”

“It's great to see the people of Metro Detroit coming out to volunteer and help build homes for those affected by the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes. With all the Super Bowl excitement, it's nice for people to participate in an event that will make such a significant impact in people's lives while also being a part of the Super Bowl festivities.”

People Helping Home Nice Events Impact Affection Significant Excitement Affected Coming Out Bowls Volunteer Coast Hurricanes Detroit Super Bowl Metro Festivities

Author:David Daniels

“I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.”

Thinking Should Artist Money Enemy Painting Significant Plenty Earning Resent Earning A Living

Author:Arnold Friberg

“Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.”

Littles Political Force Doubt Products Activity Majors Labor Function Regard Unions Significant Labor Union

Book:THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

“We're not all the same. A common liberal refrain is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don't see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That's liberal logic for you.”

Facts Individual Differences Common Groups Logic Significant Refrain Variance Individual Differences

Author:Ilana Mercer

“The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing Art Facts Fields Significant Bother Expenses Insignificant Knowledge Is Power Art Of Writing Writing History

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”

Persons Literature Behinds Letters Significant Memorial Letter Writing Handwritten Letters

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass on our capital burden to future generations. I remarked last year in this context that our predecessors had not passed any significant part of their burden on to us.”

Ifs Years Littles Lasts Generations Theory Burden Significant Last Year Future Generation Predecessors

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.”

Way Littles Would Be Used Language Tools Significant Mathematical Programming Inferiors Mathematician Programming Languages

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.”

Ifs Doe Facts Challenges Opinion Taught Ego Notion Significant Packages

Author:Jack McDevitt

“Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.”

Children Important Book Young Reading Parent Can Do Adults Important Things Young Adult Significant Reading Books Adulthood Grandparent Infancy

Author:Anita Silvey

“Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Ends Matter Speak Love Is Childhood Special Dog Ears No Matter What Significant Clarity Human Life Realms Boyhood Dog Love Life Span Humans And Dogs

Book:DOG LOVE

Source: DOG LOVE

“Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.”

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