"I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent."
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"[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today."
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"It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction."
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"The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late."
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"Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films."
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"Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize."
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"A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea."
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"What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it."
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"I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences."
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"When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new."
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"You're still in love' 'No I'm not, I'm not She'll always be a part of me, and she's an important person in my life but for the two of us something wasn't working.' 'What element?' 'We never found out"
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"Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible"
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"At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe."
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"The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants."
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"That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing."
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"The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them."
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"Speed has become an important element of strategy."
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"Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important."
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"It is more important to be free than to be happy."
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"Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer."
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