"Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important"
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"I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important."
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"No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged."
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"Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible."
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"The very important thing you should have is patience."
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"Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'"
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"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."
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"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today."
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"Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself"
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"Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?"
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"Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing."
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"I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me."
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"If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness."
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"This letter [to the Romans] is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes."
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"If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!"
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"Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left."
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"I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism."
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"Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration."
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"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
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"I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not."
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