The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver… — Edward Mills Purcell Copy Share Image
The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the… — Heloise Copy Share Image
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically… — Walter Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior… — James Laver Copy Share Image
Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances,… — William James Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real… — H. L. Richardson Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary… — Michael Muhney Copy Share Image
“The scientific gauge is quantity: space, size, and strength of forces can all be reckoned numerically. The comparable "yardstick" in the traditional… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance. — George Parsons Lathrop Copy Share Image
Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any… — Nur Muhammad Taraki Copy Share Image
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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