Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Baba Kalyani The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Rene Dubos The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
    Rene Dubos
    French-American microbiologist, pathologist and environmentalist
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  • Samuel Butler The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ben Carson The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Charles Dickens The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • John Wooden The most important thing in the world is family and love.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki The most important thing is friends, family, and the people around you. That's what really makes you happy.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Brandan Behan The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
    Brandan Behan
     
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  • A. E. Housman The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
    Source: Referring to Luke 17:33, Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it (the wording used by Housman).
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • David Ogilvy The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jim Morrison The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Barry Commoner The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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