"The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance."
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"In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs."
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"The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family"
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"One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket."
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"If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help."
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"To pretend like Hollywood is anything other than that is disingenuous. #OscarsSoWhite is trendy, but for women filmmakers and filmmakers of color, it's not a trend. This is our reality, and it's important that we do something to change it."
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"I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for."
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"Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?"
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"The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes."
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"It's very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration."
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"The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind."
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"It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either."
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"The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life."
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"It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons."
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"I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete better. When you're playing Serena Williams, you have to compete better than her. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I also got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now. I just have to compete better, bottom line."
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"True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do."
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"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art."
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"Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey."
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"His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions."
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"What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget."
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