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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history.

Carl Sagan

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

Benjamin Cardozo

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Stanley Kubrick

In my career [the PC] is the defining product of the time. Just about the time we could have ridden off into the sunset, it enabled the Internet, which tripled its significance.

Andy Grove

My birth certificate read Dorothy May Kinnicutt, but, lest you think that the name "Sister" has any ecclesiastical significance, let me hasten to point out that it was immediately hung on me by my three-year-old brother, Frankie.

Sister Parish

It's just the overall significance of the impact of such a large-scale emergency ... We can't be stuck in the old Katrina model where we're not prepared.

David Engelthaler

I do not support the double naming of buildings because I feel it lessens the significance of the honor. He (Snyder) should instead get his own building named after him.

Sen. Brad Benson

Sometimes, we overlook or forget the significance of being a parent. It's a real job. You can't have a kid and forget. Parents are shaping, grooming and molding a human. Parents who are neglectful, who lack fortitude -- we offer them the support they need. If they need help, we show them how to help and groom.

Jackie Hayes

Mark is going through so much, ... There's a lot of significance in really the hard work I get accolades for. He's the guy that's behind the scenes that has much more on his shoulders than going out and pitching a ballgame. This is something that I'm sure we'll share together. ... He was happy I wasn't able to get it in Atlanta or Florida. I might actually have him sign it.

Trevor Hoffman

We set out to defend the proper rights of immigrants everywhere and we definitely achieved that. We will continue to fight for the cause to show the significance that this bill has on the people.

Luis Ibarra

I'm surprised that, in a game of significance, we didn't respond for the full 40 minutes. I'm very, very surprised about that. We knew this was a great opportunity in a game that had significance. We've obviously put ourselves in another spot, and now we have to dig in.

Tom Herrion

The IPE's Brent Crude futures contract is a global benchmark for pricing of the world's oil. We are delighted to enter into this co-operative venture with NCDEX, which we believe will reinforce the significance of the Brent Crude futures contract.

Richard Ward

We don't attach too much significance to it whatsoever, although traders and other people in the market think there is more relevance to it.

Troy Angus

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

Beatrice Hinkle

The Asian markets will have pivotal global significance in the coming decades and will offer significant investment opportunities for both KKR and our existing portfolio companies.

Henry Kravis

This banquet is our major fund-raiser for our local and state units. The significance is simple: This fund is helping to pay for the freedom we have earned, and that's a big deal.

Charles Evans

When that statement was made, it highlighted the significance of the situation. We will not divert from that statement.

Dalton Gooding

When I saw that study I was not convinced of the significance of the failure of the monkeys. There are many ways for an experiment to fail and most failures are not scientifically interesting. I immediately thought: we could do that in starlings.

Howard Nusbaum

Being selected to guide this historic property through its next phase of development is an honor and an exciting opportunity. Our goal is to develop a project that honors the historical significance and small-town charm of Young's Farm and the surrounding area.

Don Allison

While the Al-Arian verdict was a turning point for our community, I'm not sure it has the same significance for politicians.

Ahmed Bedier

We are most gratified that the scientific community has recognized the importance of this study and the significance of these preliminary results and invited the principal investigator to make a podium presentation of the clinical data at this important scientific symposium.

Anna Gluskin

One of my students in 2002 ¦ was on a cruise to the Antarctic, and in January they collected samples along the Larsen B ice shelf. In late February or early March of that same year ... that ice shelf just totally collapsed. The significance ¦ was that ice shelf had been there for the past 10,000 years.

Scott Ishman

Considering the national security significance of said hearing, I believe it is my obligation to be personally present together with the other invited officers when the matters listed in your invitation are deliberated [on].

Generoso Senga

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

Carl Becker

We raised enough issues of Constitutional significance and importance that we believe the court will want to hold a hearing on this.

William Korman

This says if someone does have assets, they could lose more than just their license for six months. The significance of this is that I hope it will act as a deterrent against drunk driving in the city of Peoria.

Jeffrey Green

It's my understanding that there aren't that many buildings like that warehouse in existence anymore. So we believe it did have historic significance.

Chris Bowers

You look at Wilt and how dominant he was inside, this guy did it from the perimeter. So it puts an added significance on it. So it has to be, in my mind, the greatest feat that has ever occurred in the NBA.

Paul Silas

A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy and personal significance for whomever would have owned this miniature.

Julie Aronson

Here we have a chance to look at the street system, public open space, to ask ourselves what are the things there we want to keep of great historic and cultural significance.

Alexander Garvin

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

Bernard Devoto

[It is] merely a $15 item to file to get back in good standing, ... It has absolutely no legal significance.

Joe Evans

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Andy Grove

That is certainly an issue, but not the primary focus right now. This ongoing saga with Iraq has kind of grown tiresome and hasn't had a lot of significance.

Scott Ryll

Unfortunately, when we run out of room, some of the sentimental items without monetary value, (such as) letters or personal papers, are shredded. We keep them as long as we can and we run things past the historical society before they are destroyed to rule out historical significance.

Lee Baerlocher

The reason the renewal is of significance is the technology. We're going from a tape-based media to digital one. The tape will become obsolete. Someone can drag an icon on the computer in a drag and drop procedure, as opposed to what used to be go down the hall and get the tape.

Matt Armstrong

I always appreciate some of the historic significance of this building, how it was used in the beginning, ... Time marches on, things change, and the campus needs to adjust to changing times.

Paul Evans

It has only been in the last 10 years that this fault's significance has been understood. For the most part, Oregonians believe that Oregon doesn't have the kind of earthquake history that California or even Washington has.

Jay Wilson

Many of our associates attach significance to holding more shares. As a stockholder, I am thrilled about the outcome of the vote.

Shannon Patten

The significance of this one I can say with confidence is an entire organization was shut down.

Leigh Winchell

There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance.

David Anthony

The approach of playing out the events of Our Town on an open stage engages the audience directly and essentially makes it a character in the play. The play uses flashbacks and an awareness of the fluid nature of time as it explores the significance of fully living the present moment.

Mark Cole

We're playing Mozart's 35th symphony because of the historical significance. It was the first piece the orchestra played when it started in 1982.

Gregory Pritchard

There were a number of reasons why I was back. Part of it is my love for racing. My preference was to race, but if I couldn't race, I wanted to watch. I also didn't really comprehend the significance of my crash. All I knew was my car was tore up and I couldn't race.

Derek Ingalls

This fight could make a legitimate claim to being the greatest fight of all time, maybe not in terms of social significance, but in terms of great action between two historic fighters, ... Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times.

Thomas Hauser

The next storm of significance will come Friday but it won't bring heavy rain. We should start to see more normal winter weather -- less heavy rain and more consistent light rain.

Tiffani Brown

It's not going to have much significance for most market participants. Institutional investors tend to focus more on the S&P 500 and some of the other indexes.

Russ Koesterich

You have to do some research. You have to complete a description of the property, which can be quite detailed. And you have to create your statement of significance. You have to build a case for why the property is significant.

Mark Miles

Primarily, it's because this is Poplar Bluff, and there isn't anything that remotely comes close [to Hansbrough] as far as national significance.

Richard Browne

It should not be in the book for titillating purposes or settling scores. It should be in the book because of its significance to our recent history.

Alan Brinkley

The significance really showed at graduation; you could tell that some of the instructors were really emotional. Through it all, the SEALs never called us boys, and always treated us like men. It was tough, but it was all to prepare us.

Jon Casey

Every penny is important to them. Especially with the development of the fair site, it takes on greater significance.

William Caldwell

We are continuing to investigate this case to determine the significance of the export violation.

Thom Mrozek

The significance of this gift cannot be overstated.

Michael Blachly

This is my last fight of meaningful significance, ... This is my last fight, outside and in the ring, for what I've always stood up for.

Bernard Hopkins

Golf has given my life identity, significance and purpose. But what's given me even more identity and significance is my relationship with Christ.

Jonathan Byrd

Because of my experience being in the inspections and being in the military, I knew the significance of these tapes when I heard them.

Bill Tierney

It will bring in more revenue to these companies. The numbers plus capabilities would allow the group to take up much larger contracts both in significance and value.

Kevin Kelley

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Pablo Casals

We'll ask them to come up with a name for their park, if they know any historical significance or whatever.

Connie Edmonston

It looks very unlikely that the substance contains any bacteria of any significant pathological significance.

John Davies

Overall, it would dilute the significance of the designation that we are a National Heritage Area.

Marilyn Black

In the larger debate over intelligent design, this decision will be of minor significance. As we've repeatedly stressed, the ultimate validity of intelligent design will be determined not by the courts but by the scientific evidence pointing to design.

Casey Luskin

In many cultures, the third eye has significance for seeing beyond the immediate and tangible. That's how I approach my clients. I have the ability to see the gold in people and uncover it for that person.

Beth Jones

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 of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Diane Johnson

The only thing I can't explain is why somebody who was in fear for their life would follow the person who threatened them and not flee, ... That's why I did not call the police soon. It caused me to lessen the significance of this incident.

Robert Hogan

What makes it special for me is the historical significance of standing on that stage and thinking of all the icons and pioneers that came before.

Steve Wariner

This meeting is of significance and importance.

George Price

We definitely did worry about it. We knew we should do no harm to the disaster management side. The leadership of the White House knows the political significance of disasters.

Richard Falkenrath

There's a lot of hype for those two teams. But we don't look at those games as having extraordinary significance.

Jeff Rowland

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

James Dean

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Michelle Gorman

It isn't simply a relationship affecting the two countries, ... It's one that holds significance for Asian and world economies, so we must cooperate to develop this favorable relationship further.

Sadakazu Tanigaki

We want to win so bad. We're ready for some revenge. If it was any other team, maybe we'd think of (today's) significance.

Lyndsay Munro

We need to have a discussion based on data and the social significance of that data. Considering the time constraints, I think it was a good study.

Rep. Ralph Ayres

Eight years of follow-up is too short a time to show an effect. Let's wait for 15 to 30 years of follow-up before we judge significance.

Michael Fine

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

It has local and regional significance, as well as national and international significance, ultimately as part of the (Interstate) 49 corridor.

Christine Kefauver

That they are 5 percent of the workforce - it's a sign of their significance. How much would a house cost without all the construction jobs done by immigrants? What would happen to the service industry?

Hector Flores

It's a good number, but we're reluctant to read much great significance into it.

Hank Cox

This is a direct route that will link Russia and Germany, as well as consumers in other countries in the future. It is ... of principal significance.

Alexander Medvedev

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

David Broder

The significance of life is life itself.

Hermann Keyserling

Every man seeks significance. That's the No. 1 word. Every man wants to be important to somebody. He wants to believe that it matters that he lives. We talk about presidential legacies. Every man has that same sense of what he's going to leave behind. That's the pursuit of all men.

Jim Neal

Part of the significance of this vulnerability announcement is that your machine can be exploited without you needing to do anything at all. You don't even have to open an e-mail or attachment, and this happens with the default configuration of the product.

Michael Gavin

We thought it would have significance for practice but nothing of the magnitude that's occurred over the last 20 or so years.

Robert Merton

We understand very clearly the significance of the dividend to our shareholders.

Hal Kvisle

Nuclear energy in Iran is a scientific and peaceful activity, being of high significance for the nation.

Ayatollah Kashani

This is the greatest match-up of significance between two top heavyweights in a very long time.

Dino Duva

I was hoping our kids would come out with more intensity and excitement. But Jerome did. They understood the significance of the game.

Jack Bagley

I think the work of the special prosecutor losses some significance when most of the cases are cases that have links to organized crime and drug trafficking.

Carlos Lauria

It's hard to describe the significance John has had on our program. He's given us so much credibility for what we're trying to do here.

Brian Craig

Yes, the show is educational. Yes, the show has cultural significance. But beyond all that, the show is a lot of fun. The music is infectious. It gets in your bones. It makes you want to dance.

Vince Paul

This being in Michigan really gives it added significance, because this is where it all started. There will be a lot of people in attendance that were on my side since my first race, and that holds special meaning to me.

Benny Parsons

I think the greater significance of this is that human travel ... obeys some quite simple, independent rules.

Dirk Brockmann

The significance is that it is a completely new continent that we need to be looking at.

Alex Thiermann

SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are attached. Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. Some of the smaller sects have no sacraments at all -- for which mean economy they will indubitable be damned.

Ambrose Bierce

This is historic. There's an erosion of the significance of international borders.

Nestor Rodriguez

I don't understand why we can't have something like this in Baltimore. Films are good for many things, especially for exposing ills in our community, but this is a problem everyone in Baltimore was aware of. If being in Africa didn't have any real significance then why not start a school in rural Maryland.

Sarah Mitchell

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dr. James C. Dobson

The significance (of the dethroning) is a little perverse. It's occurring as investors are beginning to flee the index fund.

Dan Wiener

The bottom line is that voters need to decide what significance they attach to these stories, ... No, what we're talking about here is qualification and who is qualified to lead the state of California.

Peter Ragone

The addition of the Latin Banking Group is a major step for our Central Florida bank and recognizes the value and significance of the Hispanic community in our market, ... Cesar E. Calvet is a dynamic leader with deep ties to the Latin Community and extensive involvement in many Central Florida civic organizations. I am thrilled to have him lead this new division.

Michael Collins

He has failed completely to manage the process effectively. He has shown a glaring inability to comprehend the nature and significance of the task he is asked to perform.

Ronnie Mamba

Invoking the safety clause seems to have been a mere excuse or ruse. It provides a basically untenable technical cover for a move with political significance.

Achin Vanaik

If we had our time again we would manage differently the significance of May 13; we'd want to finish a great stadium.

Martin Tidd

They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civil rights, the Civil War, cotton ... and also the history and significance of this National Historic Landmark.

Lucy Allen

But the significance of deepening of the strategic partnership between the two democracies goes far beyond commercial terms.

Ron Somers

Obviously the publishers, because of historical curiosity or the significance of it, I think expected more, ... It obviously was not as much as some of my other books, but I don't know how much a writer can get involved in trying to second-guess that.

Bob Woodward

It's a landmark development. It's of real historic significance. We are enormously relieved that we can finally close this difficult chapter of the peace process.

Bertie Ahern

We love Justin. He's a native. It's very exciting to have someone of his significance participate in the music scene here.

Ray Fleming

This archive will have immense historical significance and will be a terrific boon for scholars for several generations.

Sara Bloomfield

We have no knowledge about the documents in possession of ABC News, nor the significance of those documents, but we do know what we have repeatedly told our employees since October 25 -- and that is in no uncertain terms that they are to preserve all documents and materials.

Mark Palmer

A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l.

John Allen Paulos

The political significance is that President Arafat himself wants the ministers to be more efficient and make better efforts in doing their jobs.

Marwan Kanafani

We think the barns are a statewide significance.

Ron Blair

[The significance of Darwin's ideas] has grown, ... For example, at this moment we're looking at Asian bird flu and where it's going. If not for Darwinism, we would be ignorant of the mechanism of that flu and how it changes over time.

Robert Bloomfield

Whenever there is a change of some significance, it always presents an opportunity for competitors to make inroads. When a visible leader departs for unknown reasons, that always gives customers a reason to pause and provides an opportunity for its competitors to take advantage.

John Patrick

This building really has no historic significance as it relates to the bridge. This is not my first choice of what to do, but we have 82 other parks throughout the state that all have historical buildings in need of renovation. ...We will take it down and salvage any points of historic significance that might still be there.

Jack Smoot

That's a significant impact on the economy. Those numbers are substantial and take on substantially greater significance when looked at from the county or municipal level.

Jim Kirkley

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Laurence J. Peter

Was not really after the significance of the documents but by the manner these were obtained.

Ricardo Diaz

I count Saturday's marker as a capstone – a kind of public statement that it [the house] has been recognized by a governmental body for its historical significance.

Howard Smith

There's really no significance to it. I'm not going to move everybody down here (and then leave). I don't see anything to this.

Terry Allen

I'm completely aware of the significance of this right now. I'm hopeful that someday this won't be very significant. I hope that we will move past this moment.

Ron Prince

Very high significance targets, embassies, some of our military bases, places like that, places that would have an impact, and significance throughout the world.

Tony Tan

The character's need to see himself in a certain light, that light of an officer and a gentleman, has a universal significance. We need to believe that our purpose here is noble, that we stand for something.

Doug Hughes

Once again, the BLM and the Department of the Interior are rushing to lease and develop as much public land as they can, as fast as they can. And once again, BLM is selling off public treasures that are of great historical and natural significance.

Stephen Bloch

Just a few short months ago, we weren't sure we could host an event of this significance.

Sandy Shilstone

The significance of this 5.8 acres that we own, among the 640 acres that we also own, is it does not have to be held open for public use. It can be privately held, privately occupied.

Mike Shirley

We are proud to welcome this landmark hotel -- fully restored and offering the latest in amenities and services -- into the Hilton brand. The Hilton Fort Worth continues our legacy of offering hotels of significance culturally or within the community that are designed to help our guests experience all of the enriching leisure or business experiences that travel can offer.

Jeff Diskin

She doesn't want to see one single building demolished that doesn't need to be, ... We will be very soon developing a very comprehensive program dealing with housing needs and what to do with structures of historic significance.

Bob Mann

If you try to figure out the significance of anything he said, you're wasting your time.

Frank Dunham

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

Alan Cranston

The Australian Government has great respect for the significance of these items as part of China's scientific and cultural history, and is committed to ensuring the worlds important heritage is protected into the future.

Chris Ellison

These areas are really of global significance. It's really important to protect them now, because 20 years from now they may not be there.

Boris Worm

That is one of those most disappointing games that I've been involved in. And for a game with this much significance.

Jerry Sloan

Normally in a new or modern facility we would just go in, tear out the walls, get all the mold out. But because we want to minimally remove the historic significance of the building, we want to just remove the minimum we can.

George Hecht

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.

Eudora Welty

I do not have all the facts on the significance of these ordinances; however, I am willing to discuss the need and make an appropriate decision when fully advised.

Harriet Miers

The number three seems to have a particular significance, relevant in some strange ways to the relation between man and nature.

Erno Rubik

I don't think it's of earth-shattering significance. Many other mammals have been cloned. This was just seven or eight in a long line and, while it was more challenging than some of the other mammals because of the dog's reproductive system, it was pretty much a brute force method to get it to work.

Elaine Ostrander