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The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black… — Jesse Owens
If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life but… — Unknown Author
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t… — Charles Darwin
Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to… — Anandamayi Ma
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. — Charles Kingsley
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to… — Cecil O. Samuelson
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
Significance is inherent in the human body. — Julia Kristeva
It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a… — Edward Weston
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we make are often… — Unknown Author
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving… — Honore de Balzac
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
This is of monumental significance. The gift has been given - what we make of it is up to us. Unless we listen to counsel… — F. Burton Howard
Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for… — Noam Chomsky
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head… — Kenny Smith
...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study. — Adolf Hitler
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend… — Adolf Hitler
Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?… — Albert Einstein
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. — William Colby
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end… — Christopher J. H. Wright

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