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"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
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"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."

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."

"Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."

"Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed."

"Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method."

"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized."

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."
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"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."

"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."

"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

"At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified."

"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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