Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God."
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Significance
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Lucian Freud
Painter
"Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys."
Mao Zedong
Politician, Revolutionary
"That has less significance than a dog's fart."
Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy."
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"The significance of life is living."
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"Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters."
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"A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance."
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"Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five."
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"Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life."
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"The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder."
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"Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation."
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"Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?"
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"Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance."
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"Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did."
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"Everything I own has some significance to me."
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"People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living."
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"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."
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"The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power."
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"If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance."
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"I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is."
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