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"There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic."
"And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing."
"The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful."
"I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it."
"I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs."
"The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity."
"The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important."
"Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind."
"We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this."
"The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world."
"The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger."
"A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives."
"Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy."
"To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important."
"You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important."
"The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning."
"There's always an important person who helps support your interests and encourages you."
"You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it."
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency."
"The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science."
