Quotes with importance

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  • Barry Sanders In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Julius Caesar In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Carl D. Anderson Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
    Carl D. Anderson
    American physicist
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  • Henry James It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Alva Myrdal It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Augustus Hare It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Cooney It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Bill Delahunt It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Bill Nye It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Kriyananda Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
    Kriyananda
    Romanian-born religious leader (born James Donald Walters) (1926 - 2013)
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
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    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Ariel Sharon Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Betty Shabazz Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • George Santayana Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Edmund Burke Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Albert Einstein Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Elmer G. Letterman Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
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  • John O'Brian No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.
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