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"I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces."
"Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has."
"He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words."
"For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other."
"The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player."
"It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are."
"Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done."
"At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out."
"You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones."
"In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you."
"Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived."
"We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
"Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better"
"It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place."
"I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!"
"I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization."
"What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies."
"I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder."
"I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules."
"It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself."
