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The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life… — Vissarion Belinsky
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals… — Emma Goldman
To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime. — Unknown Author
Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater… — Robert Greene
The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power. — Umberto Eco
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. — Carl L. Becker
The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is… — William Lane Craig
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute… — Patricia J. Williams
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. — Daniel Nathans
I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital. — Evan Wolfson
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can… — Abraham Lincoln
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds."… — Ezra Taft Benson
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would… — Richard Hamming
Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on… — Erving Goffman
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat… — Joy Williams
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise. — Peter Drucker
Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion… — Federico Fellini
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into… — Henry Moore
The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like “What is the significance in the world?… — Unknown Author
Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special… — Michael Josephson
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as… — Angela Carter
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 sex. It doesn’t… — Rick Warren
You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose.… — Rick Warren

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