"The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?"
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"There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality."
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"The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech."
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"Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate."
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"Being fresh is more important than having money."
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"You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better."
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"The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time."
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"Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real."
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"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."
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"Look me in the eye. It’s ok if you’re scared. So am I. But we are scared for different reasons. I am scared of what I won’t become. And you are scared of what I could become. Look at me. I won’t let myself end where I started. I won’t let myself finish where I began. I know what is within me, even if you can’t see it yet. Look me in the eyes. I have something more important than courage. I have patience. I will become what I know I am."
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"I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline."
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"The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray."
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"The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles."
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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
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"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."
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"It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things."
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"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly."
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"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."
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"The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life."
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"The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the sense of having no human content I want to communicate. I want the idea to strike right away."
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