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"Many people chase after success. Others pursue money. But I think the happiest people on earth Are the one's who have found significance. The real question of life must be What has significance for you" »Unknown
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"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it." »Benjamin Cardozo
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." »Aristotle
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"The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance." »Pablo Casals
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"A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun." »Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda
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"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." »Henri Cartier-Bresson
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"The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order." »Eudora Welty
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"The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning." »Oprah Winfrey
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"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance." »Graham Clarke
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"Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it." »Albert Einstein
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"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." »Grayson Kirk
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"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form." »Simone de Beauvoir
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"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form." »Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
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"To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time." »Aldous Huxley
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"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk" »Laurence J. Peter
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"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?" »Laurence J. Peter
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"There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist." »Joe Keenan
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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