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"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
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"For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song."
"Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?"
"It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance."
"I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance."
"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are."
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
"The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security."
"Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs."
"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."
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"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."
"What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
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