Molly Ivins

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

American Journalist

Sugata Mitra

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

Indian Educator

Rene Cassin

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.

French Judge

Julie Sweet

An employee, even a very junior person, if they can articulately summarize a meeting, if they can put together a presentation and even emails that are really salient and to the point, they are so valued.

American Businesswoman

Iggy Pop

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

American Musician

Karl Iagnemma

We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.

American Writer

Robert Sapolsky

For moral judgment, I think the most interesting trends in neuroscience are the ways in which judgments vary as a function of how emotionally salient the situation is.

American Scientist

Martha Nussbaum

What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.

American Philosopher

James Buchan

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.

British Novelist

Adam Mansbach

America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.

American Author

Use 'salient' to highlight what stands out the most in a context, like the key element of a presentation.

Spotlight Feature

'Salient' implies something is not just noticeable, but also significantly important or central to the discussion.

Critical Importance

In heraldry, use 'salient' to describe figures like animals that are depicted as if leaping or springing.

Heraldic Motion

In military contexts, 'salient' refers to a point vulnerable to attack because it protrudes into enemy territory.

Military High Risk

In geometry, 'salient' identifies an angle or part that points outward, away from the figure.

Geometric Protrusion

 But another, more salient realization that comes to light is the triviality of our own self-importance and self-consciousness. To truly understand the extent to which your self-consciousness prohibits you from engaging in opportunities should lead everyone to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.

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 who move to some other state, but there's a good reason for focusing on these three dollars because this is salient and important to state legislators and state policy makers, and it's the states that are going to have to act. So there is this key benefit that is relevant

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 it sort of suggests that maybe space and time are not helping you and not necessary for understanding how these processes work. And there is actually a lot that you can calculate in physics at the sort of, subatomic scale, where space and time are not salient variables.

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 state but there's a good reason for focusing on these three dollars because this is salient and important to state legislators and state policymakers and as the states are gonna have to act so there is this key benefit that is relevant to state policymakers in terms

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 which I thought was a very salient point not these lines are mobile I'm afraid unfortunately I think there are too many people here let me just try and figure out what's going on here let's go across to Steve while I do that

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 that in some US cities parking lots cover more than a third of the land making them the single most salient object for of the landscape in our built environments and these parking lots they can help serve as stepping stone

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 And that is a wonderful stepping away in perspective, to try to then think about the way our planet behaves, as a planet, and with the life that's on it. And all of this seems to me to be a salient point in history.

Penelope Boston: Life on...

 The U.S. economy is still the world's greatest economy. How did it become the world's greatest economy? I could give you all kinds of facts and figures about the U.S. economy, but I think the most salient one is

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 So at funerals, relationships are reconfirmed but also transformed in a ritual drama that highlights the most salient feature about death in this its impact on life and the relationships of the living.

Kelli Swazey: Life that...

 And it's a tremendous problem for us. The outstanding -- the salient problem about this for us is that these are places that are not worth caring about. We're going to talk about that some more.