"Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe."
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"People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different."
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"What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind."
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"The right tools are just as important as the makeup itself."
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"Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are."
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"The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket."
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"I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me."
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"The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them."
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"Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that."
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"We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date."
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"If jobs are important, education is important."
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"What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all."
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"...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone."
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"The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do."
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"The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside."
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"Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown."
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"It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit."
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"[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important."
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"I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing."
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"If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless."
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