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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I know the value and significance of trading opportunities and have seen myself from Americas to the Far East the power of trade and open markets.
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.
The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.
Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.
Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.
Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.
Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
Whatever the changes, from one era to the next, Pocono has maintained its character and significance to me, and it always will. My family shares this sentiment.
Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot of significance.
A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.
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.
NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.
Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life.
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.
We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.
Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.
The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.
The thing that has always interested me - amidst the scale, the historical spectacle, or the social significance or the political resonance - has been the relationships.
Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.
I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital.
There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.
Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.
The significance of playing a South Asian character that's a lead role in a network primetime television show is certainly not lost on me.
Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.
Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.
The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.
Something of eternal significance transpired there.
Not only was the calendar of the world changed,
but heaven itself and eternity were affected.
. . . 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.
My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.
