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Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures. — Joseph Cornell
Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they… — Louis Leakey
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning… — Rollo May
Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football… — Nile Kinnick
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in… — Michael Lang
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very… — Laura Miller
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance. — George Parsons Lathrop
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that… — Edward Mills Purcell
The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind stuff. Human fare… — Ludwig Feuerbach
I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone. — Bob Parsons
Experience has taught me that if we, like President Monson, exercise our faith and look to God for help, we will not be overwhelmed with… — Carl B. Cook
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. — John Sergeant Wise
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it. — Benjamin Cardozo
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make… — Alan Brennert
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a… — Alexander Cockburn
A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need… — Ronda Rousey
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling.… — Oliver Sacks
The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against… — Chris Carter
There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of… — Bhagat Singh

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