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"Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task that [Edward] Said describes, surely an important one."
"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
"Sales is the most important aspect of a company, which in turn is about how well you treat your customer and stay ahead of your customer's requirements."
"Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services."
"The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like minnows into sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn't realized and before you know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in commas. Better to use them sparingly, and with affection, precisely when the need for each one arises, nicely, by itself."
"But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand."
"It's hard to do, but I think it's really important to go back and watch yourself."
"To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one."
"It’s not getting the million that’s important, it’s what it makes of you to achieve becoming a MILLIONAIRE."
"Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television."
"Pain only matters when it happens to someone important."
"Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck"
"You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them."
"... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star."
"I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates."
"It is very important to support what you believe in."
"Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans."
"And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed."
"The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves."
"If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up."
