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The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 138 -
The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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The importance of anything in the world is precisely the importance which we attach to it ourselves.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
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The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
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There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
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There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.
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