#significance

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#character #diminished #importance #insignificance #knowledge

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 had magic or religious significance. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#catching #example #figures #had #illustrate

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

#away #clings #condition #contract #long

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#does #everything #instrument #little #man

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#genes #great #human #identifying #medical

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#billionaire #eat #got #i #make

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#brought #deep #died #event #freighted

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#class #concepts #descriptive #discussing #faculties

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#affects #civil #civil liberties #dismantled #foreigners

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#best #culture #ever #game #important