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The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inev...

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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowled...

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George WashingtonGeorge Washington's Farewell Address

Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, ...

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden o...

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It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity ...

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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvary...

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Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important...

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When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavem...

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If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, s...

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I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, ...

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Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, ...

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Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, ...

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Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, ...

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Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a...

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Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for u...

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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious...

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There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...

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Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denuncia...

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If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should ...

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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion emb...

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The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either ...

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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements...

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From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the ...

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The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...

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Anna QuindlenImagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of ...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Six Napoleons/The Adventure of the Crooked Man

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly im...

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The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actuall...

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of ...

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There are more important things than being careful

I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it ...

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Dennis PotterSeeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture