"Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person."
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"we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world."
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"It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is."
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"What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do."
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"The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities."
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"Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk."
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"The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker"
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"Music is an important part of my writing process."
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"I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important."
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"Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you."
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"With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work."
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"Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support a purpose-driven school of architecture than to invite a high profile designer to build."
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"If it's important, your heart remembers."
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"Everything truly important is washable."
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"It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed."
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"There might be some of them that don't care. To me, it's important that my fans know how much I appreciate them."
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"Its important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else."
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"Can I say one other thing that`s very important? I`m indebted to Donald Trump for a long time, we`ve had this problem that people disliked government. And the health care bill has shown reminded people and Donald Trump has shown people there is something a lot worse than government. It`s not government. That as bad as they might have thought the government was on health care, it`s now created people that the absence of government healthcare is even worse."
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"The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client."
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"Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest]."
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