Quotes with important

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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • George Eliot The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Bob Knight The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to make.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Germaine Greer The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Regis McKenna The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.
    Regis McKenna
    American marketing expert (1939 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Allan Bloom The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Barry Eisler The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Anna Lindh The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • David O. Mckay The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
    David O. Mckay
    American religious leader and educator (1951 - 1970)
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  • Sir Humphry Davy The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
    Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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