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“There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences.”

People Results Millions Health Consequence Access Significant Pakistan Toilets

Author:Geeta Rao Gupta

“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”

World Firsts Mean Artist Students Development Asking Aim Oneself Deeper Significant Graduates Accountants Graduate Students Aim Of Education

Book:Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)

Source: Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)

“Draconian limits on economic growth and on the use of the automobile should not be necessary in order to give Americans clean air at levels they are willing to pay for, but it will require significant Federal, State, and local leadership and innovative approaches from government and industry.”

“I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.”

Years Two Wanted School Amount Research Decided Medical Significant Two Years Finishing Medical School Undergraduate Medical Research

Author:Eva Vertes

“I am inspired by the lives of good and faithful women. From the beginning of time, the Lord has placed significant trust in them.”

Lord Inspired Significant Faithful

Author:Margaret D. Nadauld

“Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.”

Important Independence Significant Mexican Independence Day Important Days Cinco De Mayo

Author:Kuno Becker

“As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.”

Want Feels Humans Actors Human Beings Significant Alternatives End Times Spend Time Wasting Your Time

Author:Ron Perlman

“Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.”

People Real Problem Company Watches Products Keys Politician Letters Performances Bases Claims Improvement Significant Consumers Trends Offering Signals Rivals Hawks

Author:John Elkington

“The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.”

“Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of Cinderella so it seemed, it felt actually as though it hadn't been done for quite some time, not with the kind of lushness that we could do it with, with an absolute removal of the passivity of Cinderella and finding an amusing way, a lighthearted but significant way of making her proactive and not a girl who's life is about waiting for a bloke.”

Way Kind Done Character Life Is Girl Felt Waiting Clear Century Findings Evidence Absolutes Significant Versions 21st Century Amusing Removal Proactive Passivity Blokes

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider's personality.”

Thinking Design Mines Personality Significant Suits Designer Boots Riding Gloves Motorcycle Riders Helmet Motorcycle Riding

Author:Valentino Rossi

“When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.”

Way Found Cases Havens Degrees Performances Mirrors Significant Significance Substitutes Void Alignment

Author:Richard Rohr

“I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Body Arms Your Body Significant Tattoo

Author:Blake Lively

“I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Study Forgotten Significant Legacy Folly

Author:Steve Martin

“The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.”

“The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.”

Given Levels Consciousness Situation Capacity Significant Arise Factors Observers

Author:David Hawkins

“EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.”

Process Difficult Dangerous Constitution Significant Continuing Expansion Participation Slow Down Standardization

Author:Vaclav Klaus

“Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.”

Way Looks Technology Environment Building Materials Significant Factors Enabling Raw Materials Significant Change

Author:Aaron Levie

“If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.”

Ifs Impact Significant Peers

Author:J Tillman

“Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm.”

Violence Failing Worst Conditions Danger Window Leaving Harm Significant Reform Relief Dressings Expanding Tact Window Dressing

Author:Dean Spade

“Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.”

World Way Want Problem Running Deals Pieces Groups Israel Humanitarian Tiny Significant Islamic Territory Capability Refugee Fanatics Gaza Hamas World Problems Sardines

Author:Moshe Arens

“Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.”

Justice Growing Rights Economic Building Gay Models Strategy Significant Framework Disagreement Formation Trans Gay Rights Economic Justice

Author:Dean Spade

“In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.”

America Opportunity Interest Capacity Investment Productions Improvement Newspapers Significant Mediums Capability Efficiency Publishers Boost North America Enhancement

Author:Eric Bell

“It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.”

World Art Attention Streets Art Is Good Things Significant Symbols Credibility Art World Street Art

Author:Invader

“Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don't understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what's to come in the future.”

Ifs Reason Happens Roles Bigger Significant Things Happen Puzzles Everything Happens For A Reason Happens For A Reason Bigger Picture

Author:Jon Connor

“There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.”

Important Differences Significant

Author:Kinky Friedman

“We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.”

Motivational Past Challenges Conditions Significant Regions Quarters Decline Steel

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.”

“If I can't blow to significant heights, at least I can inspire the niggas that's doing the big numbers.”

Ifs I Can Bigs Numbers Inspire Blow Significant Height

Author:U-God

“I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.”

People Thinking Knows Years Made Ideas Real Results Cutting Possibility Studios Significant Crippled

Author:Brian Eno

“It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.”

People Mean Different Seems Bits Pieces Modern Amount Population Significant Native Native American Dna Bits And Pieces Neanderthals

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.”

“I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.”

Made Suffering Growing Heard Comfort Lessons Depth Saint Significant Inevitable Ease Life Lesson God's Love Grasping Really Deep

Author:John Piper

“There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant 'greenhouse' gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed. There has been no warming over 18 years.”

Men Years Has Beens Made Reason Past Effort Effects Theory Prove Climate Change Significant Weather Global Warming Gas No Reason Carbon Greenhouses Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases

Author:John Coleman

“Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.”

“We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.”

Growth Seeing Investment Significant Germany

Author:Gerhard Schroder

“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”

People Firsts Looks Would Be Action Practice Design Words Of Wisdom Method Constant Significant African American Customs

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.”

Men Made Computer Chaos Significant Weather Global Warming Flaws Flawed Projection

Author:John Coleman

“Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.”

Years Issues Security Significant Adequate Vessel Funding Port Hamptons Richmond

Author:Bobby Scott

“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.”

Men World Way Inspirational Spirituality Special Unique Every Man Significant Remarkable Mysticism Siddhartha Interconnection Demian

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.”

Humans Sex Imagination Human Beings Practice Activity Importance Significant Fancy Application Deliberate Human Activity Thesis

Author:John Norman

“Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.”

Years Has Beens Past Culture Party Environment Greater Economic Members Significant Over The Past

Author:Alex Campbell

“It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.”

House Significant Confusion

Book:Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics

Source: Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics

“We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.”

Source: A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England

“Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.”

Company Technology Significant Owners Executives Portions Propensity

Author:David Coleman

“Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.”

Has Beens Father Monsters Significant Accomplishment Productive Productive Life

Author:Stephen Hunter

“Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.”

People Has Beens Dies Fighting Born Battle Innovation Significant Committees Messy

Author:Rands

“We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.”

Education Lows Standards University Population British Significant Proportion Britain Schooling Compulsory Compulsory Education

Author:Nigel Short

“What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.”

Knows Has Beens Said Stills Moments Facts Morning Happened Havens Significant Release Site

Author:William Scranton

“A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.”

Want Leadership Numbers Pages Sentences Significant Statements Administration Cia Fbi Significant Numbers

Author:Bob Graham

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