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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made."

Important Law Loyal
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Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
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"You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it."

Important Interesting Unique
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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake."

Important Drama Bangs
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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself."

Real Important Hurt
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come."

Important Responsibility Humility
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Barack Obama Politician
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"It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience."

Important Zero Privacy
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it"

Inspirational Life Important
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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure."

Important Business Frustration
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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it deserves rather than what it earns. It is paid for 'good intentions' and 'programs'. It is paid for not alienating important constituents rather than satisfying any one group. It is misdirected by the way it is being paid into defining performance and results as what will produce the budget rather than as what will produce contribution."

Way Important Defining
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown."

Self Important Practice
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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is."

Thinking Important Winning
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy."

Men Important Unhappy
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'."

People Thinking Important
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