"But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious."
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"When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse."
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"Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books."
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"An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet."
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"I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well."
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"The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists, we don't have to have gone to the academy, or to the university to learn theory and to be a theorist of gender."
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"Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you."
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"That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about."
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"Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is important, but an education is also about exploring new things -- discovering what makes you come alive, and then being your best at whatever you choose"
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"My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one."
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"Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger."
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"Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of their determination fades with time. The important thing is not that your resolve never wavers, but that you don't get down on yourself when it does and throw in the towel."
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"I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour."
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"Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly."
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"Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas ."
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"I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment."
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"A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India"
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"I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important."
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"I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them."
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"Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun."
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