"Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation"
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"It is always important to have something yet to do in life."
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"We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met."
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"It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil."
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"He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things."
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"You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet."
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"It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever."
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"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
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"One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us."
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"Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions."
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"Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions."
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"Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it."
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"Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs."
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"I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it."
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"I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important."
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"When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information."
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"Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round."
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"Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important"
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"To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility."
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"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
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