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  • Anita Hill Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Michael Harrington That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
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  • Bruce Davison That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Leslie Fiedler The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Bill Frist The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bob Graham The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Riley The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • William Faulkner The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Plato The beginning is the most important part of the work.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bill Buford The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Ben Cardin The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
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  • Bryan Magee The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Voltaire The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Oscar Wilde The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ring Lardner The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
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  • Buffalo Bill The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition), Arc Manor LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Milo Bloom The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
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