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«Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.»
Author: Andy Grove
| About:
Computers,
Internet
| Keywords:
rode, significance, sunset, tripled, triples
«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.»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
continuous, Order The, revelation, sequence, significance, The Sequence, thread
«I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.»
«Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.»
Author: Sir Arthur Eddington
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
beyond measure, described, metrical, physicist, significance, stunt, stunted, stunting, symbols, weighed
«The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
cosmic, scale, significance
«Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can't compromise.»
«The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
art form, aversion, aversions, conventional, criticized, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, distinction, enjoyed, enjoyment, sharper, significance, The Social, uncritically
«There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
bubbling, defies, from the heart, rigid, significance, spontaneously, The Philosopher, without expression
«The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
aim, appearance, art, inward, outward, represent, significance, take aim
«It is a good lesson /though it may often be a hard one /for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
achieves, aims, devoid, dignitaries, dignitary, significance
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