"The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything."
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"Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart."
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"What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have"
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"The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision."
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"If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom."
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"It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important."
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"What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die."
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"The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change."
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"The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown."
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"It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go."
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"I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it."
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"THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me"
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"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo."
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"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power."
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"Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about."
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"The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal."
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"They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself."
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"[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour."
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"I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going."
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"The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important."
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