"We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important."
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"Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are."
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"Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community."
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"I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping."
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"There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me."
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"In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me."
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"Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible."
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"The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything."
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"What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?"
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"Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject."
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"Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to."
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"The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying."
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"The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany"
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"It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends."
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"The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life."
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"We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have."
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"There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous."
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"Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it."
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"It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary."
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"When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the story of an icon. You've got to get it right. Otherwise, you'll get killed by critics and fans."
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