"The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'"
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"I do feel it's important to have some kind of faith in something, but [it is] impossible for many of us. I personally don't have any faith in anything, but it's great if you can."
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"Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion."
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"The big thing I tell my kids is you have to control how you label things. It's very important to me they understand the power they have to create the lives that they want."
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"The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences."
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"It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words."
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"Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know."
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"Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it."
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"We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief."
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"I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand"
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"It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them"
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"When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist."
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"We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important."
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"Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view."
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"At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I’ll let you decide which is the more important revelation."
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"I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II"
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"It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions."
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"I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important."
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"I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This is the most important decision any President or any Senator must make, and it deserves vigorous debate"
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"My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it."
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