Quotes with self-important

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  • Bill Gates Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Steve Jobs Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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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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  • Bhagavad Gita That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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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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  • Maxwell Maltz The ''self-image'' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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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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  • C. Wright Mills The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Archibald Macleish The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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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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  • Ben Elton The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
    Stark Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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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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  • George Harrison The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
    George Harrison
    English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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  • Plato The beginning is the most important part of the work.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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