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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
Peter Davison
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
Charles Horton Cooley
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
Paul Ricoeur
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx 
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The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
Peter Davison
60% of people like this quote
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
Charles Horton Cooley
60% of people like this quote
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
Paul Ricoeur
54% of people like this quote
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
54% of people like this quote
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
Anton Seidl
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer
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