| "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it." »Alfred North Whitehead |
| "Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese." »Billie Burke |
| "No human thing is of serious importance." »Plato |
| "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." »Dan Quayle |
| "More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies." »Rudyard Kipling |
| "To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce." »Peter de Gaston Levis |
| "Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man." »Norman Cousins |
| "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there." »Unknown |
| "When a thing is new, people say 'It is not true.' Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say 'It is not important.' Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say 'Anyway, it is not new.'" »William James |
| "Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance." »Jean Anouilh |
| "A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down." »Robert Charles Benchley |
| "A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down." »Robert Benchley |
| "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time." »Samuel Johnson |
| "There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." »Conan Doyle |
| "I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." »Isak Dinesen |
| "Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the little things that really matter in life." »Unknown |
| "Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick, and Harry is going to miss Pierre, Hans, and Yoshio." »Al Ries |
| "We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell." »Clarence Darrow |
| "If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance." »Dale Carnegie |
| "The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority." »Bertrand Russell |
| "When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." »Sigmund Freud |
| "It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment." »Colin Greenwood |
| "Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained." »James Abram Garfield |
| "Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance." »M. I. Abramowitz |
| "Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values." »Gerald |
| "When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred." »Sun Bear |
| "If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine." »Henry Thomas Buckle |
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