"The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter."
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"Some women feel power is important, some women feel that looks are important, tenderness, intelligence...but sense of humor seems to permeate all of them."
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"I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people."
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"Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility."
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"The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important."
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"Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do."
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"We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time."
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"It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation of that is all we need contend for), it must be done by the States themselves, erecting such barriers at the constitutional line as cannot be surmounted either by themselves or by the General Government. The only barrier in their power is a wise government. A weak one will lose ground in every contest."
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"Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's, you know, an even playing field for stuff on the Internet, and, you know, I think it's very important to the medium that it have a rough quality among contents. Everyone has their shot."
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"The direction we're heading is more important than individual results."
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"Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value."
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"The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album."
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"The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society."
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"There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important."
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"I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and... it wasn't that important — because I never did it for the money."
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"Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product."
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"You need to learn to live with your mistakes. And you need to be in a position to say No once in a while. It's important in life, and it's important for any career that you want to pursue."
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"It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!"
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"You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it."
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"Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy; the greatest things in the world must be done while they are small."
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