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"I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around."
"Sanitation is more important than Independence."
"I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend."
"Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance."
"It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him"
"Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves."
"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."
"The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!"
"You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty."
"The right question is usually more important than the right answer."
"The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution"
"Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them"
"I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person."
"The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important."
"The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do."
"It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes."
"It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why."
"There is something more important than logic: imagination"
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything."
"The years in your life are less important than the life in your years."
