"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."
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"The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself."
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"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for."
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"Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person."
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"To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist."
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"It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."
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"The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit."
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"Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right."
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"Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical."
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"Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture."
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"Kiss me and you will see how important I am."
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"My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get."
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"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action."
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"Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp."
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"Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties."
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"It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance."
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"To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous."
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"Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself."
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"Food is such an important part of our lives, and sometimes we tend to diminish the importance of that, because we rely on conveniences or because our lives are so complicated. We forget about those moments that we can actually share around the table with our family, with our friends, with our loved ones."
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"The most important time is Now"
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